I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“I told him that if we doubted that we are demons in Hell, he should read The Mysterious Stranger, which Mark Twain… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Father was always getting into scrapes when he was a lad. But the worst scrape he ever hot hisself into was the… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“The meaning of sex is illustrated by two eponymous heroes of British history, King Edward VII (who flourished in the years before… — Steve Jones Copy Share Image
I wish we could see understanding the First World War as a European issue, or even a global one, and not a… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Once conscription was introduced during the First World War, and once Britain's wars ceased being confined to the empire or to continental… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When my father was a young man, during the years of the First World War and long before there was any inkling… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
As the First World War made painfully clear, when politicians and generals lead nations into war, they almost invariably assume swift victory,… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“In the history of warfare, a succession of bold ideas and weapons had promised to curb the tyranny of distance. The horse… — Geoffrey Blainey Copy Share Image
“Also, she had been secretary to the soccer coach, an office pretty much without laurels in our own time, but apparently the… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
The end of the First World War had thrown Germany's youth into great turmoil. The reins of power had fallen from the… — Werner Heisenberg Copy Share Image
My entire life has really revolved around music that was written about the time that I was born, 1908, to just before… — Elliott Carter Copy Share Image
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world… — Edward Herrmann Copy Share Image
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War.… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
Indeed, Russia and the U.S. were allies during the two tragic conflicts of the Second and the First World Wars, which allows… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My dad was a big admirer of Sergeant York stories from the First World War. — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
