Raimo Korhonen wrote:
>
> Actually civilians have always suffered the most. The diseases and famine that came
>with the 30 years war which ended 1648 left more than 50% of the people dead in many
>parts of Germany. The Great Nordic war (I do not know what it is really called in
>English) which ended with the peace treaty of Uusikaupunki (Nystad in Swedish) in
>1721 did the same around the Baltic sea etc. And of the soldiers more died of the
>diseases than in battles... So the good old times were not so good. And Soviet Union
>lost approx. 14 million soldiers and 7 million civilians (estimates do vary) in the
>WW II.
Why start so late in history? We could start with the sack of Troy,
perhaps. :
Bob Harris
New York)
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