The only redemptive feature of war is the brotherhood which it forges. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“it is a constant of history that nations which start wars find it very hard to stop them.” — Max Hastings 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
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate,… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“It is not only more bloody and more murderous than any previous wars but also more cruel, more relentless, more pitiless …… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Only a small number of warriors articulated hopes more ambitious than those for personal survival. One of these was a British officer… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
As George Orwell wisely observed a generation later, the only way swiftly to end a war is to lose it. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Machiavelli observed that ‘wars begin when you will, but do not end when you please’.” — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“In all armies, soldiers serving with forward combat units shared a contempt for the much larger number of men in the rear… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Winston Churchill wrote afterwards: 'No part of the Great War compares in interest with its opening. The measured, silent drawing together of… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Liberated in Germany by the Americans, seven-year-old Valya Brekeleva and her family of slave labourers went home to Novgorod as non-persons. “Most of the… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate, overwhelmingly dominated… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)” — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
