The sequence mixes vainglory and tragedy, and it makes us think that Spielberg could have made a great First World War movie.
Finally, globalisation went into reverse as the first world war and the Great Depression pushed governments further towards autarky.
Recessions in the mid Seventies, after the first Gulf War and even the Great Recession of late were all attributed to rising fuel costs.
It was service in the German army, not the Austrian, that prepared him for his calling, to turn the Great War into the first world war by dint of starting a second.
He added: "His great achievement were the years when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer, before the First World War, and introduced unemployment benefits...those were his great achievements and it makes him the major figure in radical politics over the last 150 years".
Yet the history that Mr Milosz has witnessed epitomises the tragic story of Europe for nearly a century: from the first world war to the fall of the great monarchies, from Auschwitz and the Warsaw ghetto to the imposition of Soviet control, from the struggles of Solidarity to the globalised market-place.
These refugees tended to be English-speaking professionals or students. (Their less-educated compatriots were inclined to head for factories or building sites in Germany.) At first their numbers were not great, but when war broke out in Kosovo last February, sisters, cousins and others with family already established in Britain began to arrive.
Decca and other companies built the first portable record players for the trenches of the Great War and created an explosive domestic market.
The seed of today's FORBES GLOBAL was planted at an inauspicious time--in the worst days of a tragic, senseless world war, one that brought to an end the first great era of international commerce.
Before the first world war, the products of the Italian masters were among the preferred collectibles of the great and the good of Europe.
President Bush, who was in office during the first Gulf War, said he "mourned the loss" of Gen Schwarzkopf, "one of the great military leaders of his generation".
He talks about his great-uncle's service in World War II, as a member of the infantry division that first liberated a Nazi concentration camp.
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