“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
The trouble with the First World War, for example, is that people think war was inevitable, but I don't agree. If you… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In… — Harry Dolan Copy Share Image
It is often said that Americans have no sense of history. Ask a college student who Jimmy Carter was and they will… — J. Maarten Troost Copy Share Image
It is ... necessary to whip up the population in support of foreign adventures. Usually the population is pacifist, just like they… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers 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
“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
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
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
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's… — Zoe Leonard 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
A preacher was operated on for a hernia. As this was about the time of the first world war he was given… — Art Linkletter 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
“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
I always found the extraordinary loss of life in the First World War very moving. I remember learning about it as a… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
“There was a time, in fact, I think the time of the first World War, when it could not have been said… — Robert H. Jackson Copy Share Image
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War. — Jeannette Rankin Copy Share Image
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream Copy Share Image
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power. — Whittaker Chambers Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I had a great dislike of people who themselves in… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of… — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
After the First World War the economic problem was no longer one of production. It was the problem of finding markets to… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War. — Jeremy Hardy Copy Share Image
There is no consensus even today on the merits of Napoleon - and certainly no agreement on the rights and wrongs of… — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
“It is said that chlorinated drinking water brought to troops in the First World War saved more lives than were lost to… — Hugh Aldersey-Williams Copy Share Image
The west has a great deal to answer for in the Middle East, from Britain's belated empire-building after the First World War… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I strongly believe that a small Jewish clique which has contempt for the mass of Jewish people worked with non-Jews to create… — David Icke Copy Share Image
You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun?… — H. R. McMaster 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
In my final year at Bristol University, I wrote a play called 'White Feathers.' It was produced in the studio theatre at… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
“MOST CHILDREN BROUGHT UP IN BROOKLYN BEFORE THE FIRST World War remember Thanksgiving Day there with a peculiar tenderness. It was the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was… — A. J. P. Taylor Copy Share Image
We are constantly trying to cope with what our fathers or our grandfathers did. I wrote the book 'Great War of Civilization,'… — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
