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 first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse. — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.” — John J. Pershing 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
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
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
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
In the first World War British propaganda had to invent the stories of German soldiers bayoneting Belgian babies, because there were too… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“This dark-brown viscous liquid, a by-product in the processing of sugar cane, played a major role in some of the biggest events… — Stephen Puleo Copy Share Image
“Even before the First World War there was a strain in European art and music – in Germany more than anywhere –… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated… — Sathnam Sanghera Copy Share Image
“In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“And some go the other way, the most lethal way of all: when the pressure gets to be too much, it's not… — Tana French Copy Share Image
David Lloyd George had been to Germany, and been so dazzled by the Führer that he compared him to George Washington. Hitler… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
“Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
Modernism really started with people getting infatuated with the idea of "it's the twentieth century, is this suitable for the twentieth century."… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“In the trenches of the First World War, English men came to love one another decently, without shame or make-believe, under the… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The totalitarian movements aim at and succeed in organizing masses—not classes, like the old interest parties of the Continental nation-states; citizens with… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“I guess that isn't the right word," she said. She was used to apologizing for her use of language. She had been… — Kurt Vonnegut, Jr Copy Share Image
“Sir Winston Churchill was born into the respected family of the Dukes of Marlborough. His mother Jeanette, was an attractive American-born British… — Captain Hank Bracker Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Since the 1920s, the much-reduced Christian populations have tried various strategies to maintain their existence, but none shows great hopes of success.41… — Philip Jenkins Copy Share Image
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian Copy Share Image
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
There is a difference between Iraq, where you have Sunni, Shia, and Kurds put together after the First World War by the… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
... there was the first Balkan war and the second Balkan war and then there was the first world war. It is… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Following the 2008 season nothing further was attempted until after the First World War the Stonehenge had by its time to come… — Brandon McCaw Copy Share Image
Poland, after the First World War, was beset by chaos, disorder, and a foolish incursion by the Red Army, which helped to… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
Our generation was born during the turmoil following the First World War. That war marked the dividing line - at least for… — Robert Kennedy Copy Share Image
“At the sight of the Neckar slopes wreathed with flowering cherry trees, I had a strong sense of having come home. What… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
In the First World War, there was the sudden passion of nationalism, and the killing took place because of these emotions. But… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
