On the night of December 24, 1914, a British soldier peered over the edge of his trench and saw something that made no sense. Lights. Small, flickering lights, appearing one by one along the German trenches on the other side of No Man’s Land. At first he thought it was some kind of signal, or…
Imagine sleeping in a hole in the ground. The walls are mud. The floor is mud. Your boots have not been dry in three weeks. The man next to you died yesterday and nobody has been able to move him yet because the enemy sniper is still watching. This was not an exceptional day in…
Most people learn the same answer in school. A man was shot in Sarajevo, and then somehow the whole world went to war. But if you stop and think about it for even a moment, that explanation makes no sense. People get shot every day. Countries do not go to war over it. So what…