World Awar I's unprecedented carnage was mitigated only by the grand scale of the expression of its participants. In the Last Magnificent War, a comprehensive collection of little known and difficult to obtain source documents from experience a vital living history of this war to end all wars. Harold Straubing has carefully culled materials dating from 1912 to the post-armistice days from contemporary magazine and newspaper articles, diaries, private files, speeches, books, interviews, poems, military journals and political texts. The result is a remarkable panorama of the impact of war on individual lives.