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
Pesticides came about after the first world war. Some brainy petrochemical money maker said, 'Hey, that mustard gas worked great on people,… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
When I was at Stratford, the very first thing that I was commissioned to work on was trying to make a musical… — Trevor Nunn Copy Share Image
The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of… — Edmond Taylor 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
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
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
'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
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
“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
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
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
At the age of nine, I could cross the length of Glasgow on a succession of buses, wearing regulation garter-topped stockings and… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
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
“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
There is a radical and unprecedented shift [in war] that is part of the general transformation of civilization. First, understand that the… — George Friedman 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
“Aomame imagined 1926 Czechoslovakia: The First World War had ended, and the country was freed from the long rule of the Hapsburg… — Haruki Murakami 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
“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
“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
“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 nations of the earth through the centuries of time have waged war to gain territory. I think ours is the only… — Gordon B. Hinckley 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
The period after the First World War was an extremely different time, so that Sherlock Holmes would have been a different person… — Laurie R. King 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
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
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward 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
Until the late 1950s Britain's leaders were slow to appreciate the social and economic value of motorways. The first stretch of German… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis 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
I think that the first World War put an end the kind of music that Mahler, Bruckner and Richard Strauss were writing.… — Julian Bream 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
“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
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
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th centurys first genocide - the systematic slaughter… — Chris Bohjalian 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
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
What can I say about the First World War, a war in which I served as an infantryman, a war I hated… — George Grosz Copy Share Image
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