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I believe there to be no form of communication without imagination.

  

It is unfortunate, but in my belief, not all humans have the same capacities to (imagine).  Imagine, yes,
but just as we all have different perceptions we know on topics such as beauty, colors, literature, culture,
traditions, disciplines, values, etc.  We could not all imagine in the same ways.  It's like I say often,
"common sense" is not the same for everyone.  So what makes it common?".  

I believe there to be no form of communication without need for imagination.  

sought to examine World War I in its own right and in all its manifestations. Others have attempted in
turn to understand in new ways the enormous impact of the war on subsequent decades, even beyond
the twentieth century. The latest spate of such books, spanning the continent and including an
unprecedentedly broad range of populations, contributes to challenging long-held assumptions, adds
striking nuance to existing interpretations, and provides important methodological models

World War I has since 1945 remained hidden to some degree in the shadows of the more recent debacle
of the Second World War; at most it was seen by historians and the broader public alike as an early
warning sign of the later war.1 But beginning in the late 1980s, about the seventy-fifth anniversary of
mobilization, work began to appear that broke out of the molds set by the scholarship of the preceding
decades, particularly concerning Germany, France, and Britain. Some of the more recent scholars,
establishing the scope of the “new military

e six extreme variety of experience under the ravages of warx major interrelated themes

second topic examines identity in war: how one saw oneself and others and how this informed one’s
relation to the war

t influence what constitutes the third theme, that of public sentiment toward the war over time.

fourth looks in turn at the impact of the war, both short term and long term, beginning as the war still
raged. The fifth is the question of what kinds of ruptures and continuities the war represented, and,
more specifically, whether and how the war ushered in modernity. The final theme is that of memory
and memorializing the war

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