Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard. — Shakin' Stevens Copy Share Image
“A historian once speculated on what would happen if a time-traveller from 1945 arrived back in Europe just before the First World… — Richard J. Evans Copy Share Image
Today people can see and protest all the different interests that want war to happen, the people it financially benefits. The First… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even… — J. Neven-Pugh Copy Share Image
“the Armenian genocide of the First World War years, which represented an escalation in intensity, rather than a departure from previous tolerance.… — Philip Jenkins 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
During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“had been deeply struck.... by the damage wreaked upon mathematics in France by the first world war, when “a misguided notion of… — Edward Frenkel Copy Share Image
Arthur Scargill is the Labour movements nearest equivalent to a First World War General. — Neil Kinnock Copy Share Image
Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Speaking of [Philip] Larkin, in his poem about the First World War he wrote something like, "Never such innocence, before or since,… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I read "Women Heroes of World War I" and was absolutely astonished. When we imagine women serving in the First World War,… — Kate Quinn 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
Western Civilization has been in a state of decline since the Edwardian age, say 1910. That was the height of Greco-Roman European… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists. — Paul Keating 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
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
The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
The automatic reaction of practically any young person is, at once, against authority. That, I think, began in the First World War… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
If 'Sajjan Singh Rangroot' showed seriousness through the First World War, 'Carry On Jatta 2' had a great dose of comedy. — Varun Sharma Copy Share Image
“The sad truth was that the United States had not been reduced to a smoking rubble by the first World War.” — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image