On the enemy side, the Field Marshal gives the German and Austro-Hungarian losses at approximately eleven millions.

And to these have to be added the Russian casualties before 1917, a figure running into millions; the Serbian, Roumanian, and Turkish losses, and, lastly, the American.
Some _seven million young men_ at least have perished from this pleasant earth, which is now again renewing its spring life in beauty and joy, and millions of others will bear the physical marks of the struggle to their graves.

Is there anything to console us for such a spectacle?
The reply of the British Commander-in-Chief is that "the issues involved in this stupendous struggle were far greater than those concerned in any other war in recent history.

Our existence as an Empire, and civilisation itself as it is understood by the free Western nations was at stake.

Men fought as they had never fought before." "Go, stranger, and tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their will." So the Greek epitaph that all men know.