Which was bloodier, WWI or WWII?

My vote would be World War I. Let's take a look at what a typical WWI soldier faced and what a typical WWII soldier faced. read more

The notion that World War II was worse for non-combatants but World War I was worse for combatants reflects the perspective of Great Britain and France, both of which had a far higher number of military fatalities in World War I than in World War II (which is the reason why the"Great War" is more present in the collective memory in these countries than anywhere else). read more

World War II by a landslide, especially the Eastern Front. The Western Front was brutal but the real war was on the other side since the Germans had won by 1941, even then only started to lose territory because of the massive scale of the war against Russia. read more

World War 1 lasted from 1914 to 1918 and about 8.5 million people were killed and another 21 million wounded more were soldiers than civilian World War 2 lasted from 1939 to 1945 and over 70 million people died and of those 70 million, more were civilians than soldiers. read more