“In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million people had to die. On the eve of the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of the First World… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“There was a happy irony in the first cousin of the autocratic Kaiser Wilhelm II and Tsar Nicholas II (with whom George bore a… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“In America's 'nonlinear war', with no frontline or clear political or territorial goals, the number of enemy killed apparently revealed who was 'winning'. 'The… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“If a complete free market seemed efficacious in principle, in practice it had not delivered the basic services necessary for a country to call… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“At the present rate of attrition, Haig delighted in informing the prime minister, ‘the enemy’s man power will be running out next May or… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany’s military objectives in Europe. That year Germany… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“The moment historians examine the past they risk changing it, by selectively re-arranging events, consciously or not, according to the judgment(s) of posterity or… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“entrenchment of social conservatism, being a strident belief in God, King and Country that arose after the disillusionment of the Belle Époque (which was… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“Friedrich von Bernhardi, one of Germany’s most influential military thinkers. Bernhardi believed the German people were destined to become the master race, who would… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“There is one possibility left,’ he wrote on Christmas Day 1913, 40 years ahead of his time, ‘an industrial customs union, of which sooner… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“Indeed, in the huge opening battles to come, hundreds of thousands of German youths would hurl themselves at the French, British and Russian lines… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“During the Year of the Monkey, the press, which had hitherto generally supported the war or stuck to feel-good stories of heroism and mateship,… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
“Respected political and military leaders saw the world as a Darwinian battleground, where the fittest race would emerge triumphant from a savage fight to… — Paul Ham Copy Share Image
