"A Few of the 37 Million/The world counted 37 million casualties, with nine million dead, when World War I ended in November, 1918, after 4 1/2 bloody years. Sparked by an assassination in the Balkans, it soon involved almost all the armies of Europe, and by spring, 1917, also the United States. Here, with the smoke of battle in the background, wounded are loaded into Red Cross ambulances on the British front."
