Capital's temporary obsession

By Paul Daley
Updated April 18 2018 - 10:49pm, first published November 11 2012 - 3:00am

WHEN THE guns finally fell silent on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the world began ledgering the indeterminate cost of pitting the industrial machinery of war - tanks, artillery, machineguns and airborne bombs - against the arcane cavalry and infantry charge.

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