![]() ![]() Over 60 million human beings died in the conflict, one person every three seconds for six years. That declaration would apply even more fittingly for World War II. ![]() Walt Whitman famously said of the American Civil War that the real war would never make it into the books. And they landed on the globe with catastrophic impact. In their causes, personalities, strategies, and consequences, the world wars were two shoes that dropped from the same nationalistic European corpus. Such a round number of decades, bursting rather rudely into the centennial memorial of the Great War, reminds us yet again of the inextricable links that bound the two conflicts together. Today marks the seventieth anniversary of V-E Day, the official surrender of the German government that brought the Second World War to a close in Europe.
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