"Less of a big deal" is a good way to put it, in the States anyway. I don't remember discussing WWI much at all in high school, other than maybe the fact that it like happened. I didn't really learn anything about it until college, in a class I chose to take. Frankly, as far as the first twelve years of school go, we do well to cover the first couple hundred years of our own history and maybe some random ancient civilizations, nevermind anything else.

We read the first Regeneration book this semester, and I am absolutely dying to get my hands on the rest of the trilogy. I devoured the entire novel in a day, which I pretty much never do with assigned reading no matter how good it is.