14-18, the noise and the fury

Not everything has been said about “the war to end all warsà, about the story of this immense deception, this infinite waste. Far from it.
Since World War I plunged entire armies into a previously unknown state of pure brutality and unprecedented degree of suffering, it changed the very nature of war. Our aim is to try and explain the inexplicable: how did tens of million of men put up with the incredibly harsh life in the trenches for such a long period of time - four years - season after season, day after day and night after day? How did they accept the prospect of almost certain death or injury when - unlike during WW2 - they did not exactly know why they were fighting?
Through the analysis of Annette Becker, one of the leaders of this new historiographical trend, we want to provide a new vision of the conflict, which scale, violence and very nature both foreshadowed and caused the tragedies of the 20th century.