“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
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
“...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
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
The word crap is actually another word that's very, very old. It was taken over from 17th century England by the pilgrim… — Lucy Worsley 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
'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
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
“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
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
“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
“The biggest explosion of the First World War was set off by miners from the allied forces, who dug shafts underneath German… — Jack Goldstein 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
“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
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
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
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
“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
“These moments of nocturnal prowling leave an indelible impression. Eyes and ears are tensed to the maximum, the rustling approach of strange… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
