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 For the dominant seventh head of the beast, that war was a major disaster. Along with other European nations, Britain list its young men in traumatic numbers. In one battle alone, the Battle of the River Somme in 1916m 420,000  British solidiers died, along with 200,000 French aaand 450,000 German-more than 1,000,000 fatalities!  Economically. too,  Britain-together with the rest of Europe-was shattered! The huge British Empire staggered under the blow and never fully recovered.  Indeed, that war, with 28 leading nations participating, sent the entire world reeling as if by a deathblow.  On August 4, 1979, just 65 years after the outbreak of World War I, the Economist of London, England, commented which it has not mangage to recapture since." 

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