“There is no doubt that 'force multipliers' - squad automatic weapons - have changed the character of warfare once again, just as… — Roger Ford 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
As a privileged survivor of the First World War, I hope I may be allowed to interject here a deeply felt tribute… — Rene Cassin 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
'Into the Blizzard' follows the author as he traces the footsteps of the Newfoundland Regiment during the First World War: where they… — Michael Winter Copy Share Image
“... your father and I were in the trenches together, in the Great War. That was a war all right. Oh I… — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
If you look at the First World War, the Kaiser was actually, actively buying a lot of the armaments from Britain! in… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
Mehmet Ertegun died in 1944. President Roosevelt sent his body back to Turkey on the U.S.S. Missouri. Mehmet Ertegun and President Roosevelt… — George W. S. Trow Copy Share Image
“...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That… — Elena Mauli Shapiro Copy Share Image
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Perhaps this is an area where every generation starts from scratch. Although the crisis of the First World War inaugurated an especially… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Unemployment, hard times, were growing in 1914. Could guns divert attention and create some national consensus against an external enemy? It surely… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
