Dan Kingsbury Our local station, KNKX, has a travel piece on Hvar as an example of "island heaven" today: http://knkx.org/post/going-places-island-getaways-near-or-far-force-you-slow-down

Dawn Yes, I understand. Imprecise laguauge can be confusing.

Dan Kingsbury Re the 1.2M casualties, I was quoting from the Wikipedia entry for the 12 battles in this area, not for the entire of WWI.

Dawn Yes, the casualty rates during this time are hard to pin down. For instance, the Russian prisoners of war used to construct roads over the mountains were not even recorded as to casualty rates. The estimates I have seen from this region conservatively say 1.2 million - from both the Australian-Hungarian and e Italian sides. You are right though, I was imprecise in saying deaths - that was a casualty estimate for that front. 11 million deaths total in the war however - not 1.2 million in WWI battles as you wrote.

Dan Kingsbury According to Wikipedia (which is somewhat vague in its language), there were 1.2M "casualties" in the WWI battles, which usually refers to both dead and injured.