The Long ShadowIn Britain, we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flandersof young men whose lives were cut off in their prime for no evident purpose. But by reducing the conflict to personal tragedies, however moving, we have lost the big picture: the history has been distilled into poetry. In The Long Shadow, critically acclaimed author David Reynolds seeks to redress the balance by