How enormous & epic were modern battles if historiography & nomenclature remained ancient?

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Battle of Kursk
Ten million Teutonic warriors, with one hundred thousand ironclad wagons, clashed with twenty million Slavonic warriors, with two hundred thousand ironclad wagons, on the vast steppe...

Battle of Midway
On the immense sea were the Yamato fleet and the Yankee fleet, each composed of five thousand ships, a hundred of which carried winged capsules...

Casualties and losses on one side or both sides: staggering, depend on how partial or impartial the authors were.
 
They fought day and night for a week, until Hitler arrived on the battlefield, riding a gilded panzer.

"Come forth!" he cried to Stalin.
Stalin, mighty and stern, came out of his tent and looked to the Heavens.
"If you give me victory on that day, I will sacrifice the loveliest thing this year will bear" he swore.
 
In the year of one millenium, nine centuries, and four decades the Hoards of the Leader of the Germans would plan their fleets to invade Island of the Celtic Britains.

They would fail to clear the skies of the avian protectors and thus doom themselves to Scythian metal beasts.
 
In the year of one millenium, nine centuries, and four decades the Hoards of the Leader of the Germans would plan their fleets to invade Island of the Celtic Britains.

They would fail to clear the skies of the avian protectors and thus doom themselves to Scythian metal beasts.

Then the Leader of the Germans asked the oracles what he should do next. They replied "Follow the dreams in your scrolls My Struggle and invade the Lands of the Bear People. If you do that, you will destroy a mighty empire." So he did.
 
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