It took so many millions of lives that by the time the First World War finally ended,

some were calling it the war to end all wars.

In just a moment, we'll examine it through the poetry its soldiers wrote for an unfiltered view

from the trenches.

Their poetry managed to get out to the world at large and convey what that war was really like in a way that nothing else did.

Best-selling biographer Michael Korda joins us in the hour ahead to remind us of the price that was paid in World War I

and how it still haunts us today.

I have a rendezvous with death on some disputed barricade.

We'll also get you ready to explore rural villages in Turkey where SightS Inc can open you up to

Turkish hospitality. There won't be an attraction in the village such as a museum

or a site but the attraction will be you in America walking through the streets of the village.

Come along for the hour ahead. It's Travel with Rick Steves.

Today we'll get ready to explore the villages of rural Turkey, where you can get away from the tourist crowds of the cities and experience the timeless hospitality of small town Anatolia in just a bit.

And listeners share the ha who they've written after hiking

the trails of rural England and Scotland. Let's open this Memorial Day edition of

Travel with Rick Steeves, looking back to what started with an assassination in

Sarajevo back in 1914 and ignited a devastating world war that lasted for

four years. It brought about the end of four major empires, created new nations from their remains

and killed some 9 million soldiers and 8 million civilians.

To understand what the First World War was really like, Michael Korda

examines the words of a handful of soldiers in his new book, Muse of Fire. Their poetry,

written from the trenches and battlefields,

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