Editing The World Wars (section)

==Side Note: The Shackleton Expedition and the End of the Age of Heroes==
Ernest Shackleton's famous Antarctic voyage and the perils they faced ending with the miraculous survival of all but three members and the ship's cat after incredible heroism occurred during the First World War in its entirety. Shackleton was sure that the war wouldn't last more than a few months after last hearing that Russia had mobilized and that there were some minor German victories. So what happened to the great hero and his crew of champions? They returned from their epic expedition the middle of 1916. When Shackleton asked the governor of South Georgia Island when the war had ended, the reply was that millions were dying, that Europe was mad, and that the World was mad. Expecting a well deserved hero's welcome, Shackleton and his men found abject, mute horror instead. Most of them volunteered to serve in minesweepers or on the front, and several were killed in action. Shackleton even demanded a frontline position despite his severe heart condition exacerbated by the nightmare he went through, though they resisted until the Allied intervention in the Arctic front of the Russian Civil War, where he worked until the Bolsheviks took that part and the war shifted to the Caucasus and when that was done through a deal with Turkish revolutionaries (more on that below) the chase to the Pacific across Asia. Shackleton himself passed away due to heart complications in 1922, perhaps the last larger than life hero before the world woke up to gritty reality.