August Quote by A. E. Housman

“The retaking of Mons, site of the first retreat, might be seen as poetic closure. It could also symbolize futility. The British Army was…

— Joseph E. Persico

They fell, but o'er their glorious grave Floats free the banner of the cause they died to save.

— Francis Marion Crawford

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

Heaven, too, was very near to them in those days. God's direct agency was to be seen in the thunder and the rainbow, the…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“The dead were buried above ground, the loose soil heaped around them. The heavy rains of the monsoon months softened the mounds, so that…

— J.G. Ballard

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night…

— Charles Dickens

“They were dying slowly — it was very clear. They were not enemies ,they were not criminals, they were nothing earthly now — nothing…

— Joseph Conrad

The people who returned from battle were either dead on their shields or Stronger

— Cherry Diaz

More far fled those who died

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

“The last deaths of the Great War on the western front occurred at midnight on the twelfth in Hamont, a Belgian town near the…

— Joseph E. Persico

On a visit to Cologne in March 1945, after a heavy bombing, I met hundreds and hundreds of deserters who were squatting in the…

— Heinrich Boll

They say that the Dead die not, but remain Near to the rich heirs of their grief and mirth. I think they ride the…

— Rupert Brooke