I'm fascinated by the First World War because it was supposed to be the war to end all wars, and it was… — Glenn Close Copy Share Image
England Their England by AG Macdonell which was written in the thirties and is about a young Scotsman who's got shell shocked… — Ian Hislop Copy Share Image
Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world. — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who… — Ronald Lauder Copy Share Image
The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal… — Emily Greene Balch Copy Share Image
“Speaking of the capitulation of Bulgaria, an event decisive to the outcome of the First World War and therefore to the end… — Claudio Magris Copy Share Image
What is the great fear of the United States? That an Eastern power will build a navy to challenge us. How do… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
Before the first World War women were arrested for smoking cigarettes in public, for using profanity, for appearing on beaches without stockings,… — Geoffrey Perret Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt 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
“In the end, the cats were rounded up and put into a room. My father went into the room with his First… — Doris Lessing 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
I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used… — Guy Martin 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 could not have the honour of being a German soldier because of my imprisonment in the First World War. And in… — Fritz Sauckel Copy Share Image
We Germans carried our hatred from the First World War to the Second World War, and now you are about to carry… — Hans Fritzsche Copy Share Image
“with the centenary of 1914 rapidly approaching it is high time to stop regarding the first world war as current affairs and… — Gary Sheffield 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
Seventeen million people around the world lost their lives in the first world war, countless suffered and were marred for life. — Frank-Walter Steinmeier 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
“It caused my opposition to any ideologies—Marxist, Fascist, National Socialist, what you will—because they were incompatible with science in the rational sense… — eric voegelin Copy Share Image
The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“Most white people in Midland City were insecure when they spoke, so they kept their sentences short and their words simple, in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Ever since I served as an infantryman in the First World War I have had a great dislike of people who, themselves… — Anonymous 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
