I've been on a WWI kick lately, and I can absolutely believe that. I'd love to see a good written account. WWI was a weird point in history when we could build

I've been on a WWI kick lately, and I can absolutely believe that. I'd love to see a good written account. WWI was a weird point in history when we could build immovable objects, but not yet create unstoppable forces. So the great powers built two massive immovable objects, and simply ground them against each other, day after day, because they didn't really know what else to do. Lubricating those grinding surfaces with men and materiel became an existential requirement for those powers, and the British drained the colonies, and themselves, of wealth in order to survive. Incidentally, lots of that wealth ended up in the US, which had a nice line in war profiteering going on for a lot of WWI. I feel for everyone who died because of that stupid bloody war, but I'm not sure I can blame the British: once they'd got themselves into that situation they didn't have much choice. I don't even blame the Americans for profiting - all the other great powers were busy tearing each other apart because of their 19th century mindsets, it would be kinda stupid for the Americans, with their thoroughly 20th century mindset, not to just sit back and watch.