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The first world war in numbers

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

4 January 2014

9:00 AM

Centuries of conflict

2014 marks the 100th anniversary of the war which was supposed to end all wars. Has the toll of war since 1918 been lesser or greater than in the century before 1914?

1815-1914 saw the tail end of the Napoleonic Wars (5m deaths), the Zulu Wars (2m) and the US Civil War (750,000).

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