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outflanked.
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And, so, then you have the famous Western Front--
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and that's--we're not talking about the Eastern Front.
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There's a lot of good work done recently on the Eastern Front,
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but you have this Western Front that's generated so much
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magnificent literature, some of which you're reading in
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Barbusse, as well as the inevitable All Quiet on the Western
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Front by Erich Maria Remarque, and Siegfried Sassoon, and
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the British war poets.
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Now, there were a few journalists-- I can't remember if I mentioned this
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or not--who had followed the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 and 1905,
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and they had noticed that in some of these very prolonged battles that