bloodiest

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Although ultimately defeated, it was one of the British army’s bloodiest post-World War II conflicts and was a step toward Kenya’s independence, which it secured in 1963.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025

But the extremely strained relations between the two sides after nearly four years of Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II have cast doubt over the prospect of direct Ukraine-Russia talks.

From Barron's • Dec. 21, 2025

This is his Pynchoniad, a zigzagging epic of America and the world through our bloodiest, most shameful hundred years.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 30, 2025

Steven Peters was deployed to Helmand Province in 2009, during a period which became known as the British Army’s bloodiest summer in more than 50 years.

From BBC • Oct. 30, 2024

From then on, even in the bloodiest periods of the war, the two commanders would arrange truces to exchange prisoners.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez