The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below — John McCrae Copy Share Image
At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say…This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie In Flanders fields. — John McCrae Copy Share Image
“A German attack on Russia’s ally France would, in reality, be defensive—but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.” — Richard Aldington Copy Share Image
We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Mute in that golden silence hung with green, Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes Remembrance of all beauty… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
My only consolation for the failure of the Dardanelles was that God wished things to be prolonged in order to sicken mankind… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
My prayer is that what we have gone through [World War One] will startle the world into some new realization of the… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ; Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ; Discipline, not of… — Gilbert Frankau Copy Share Image
“The War went on far too long... It was too vast for its meaning, like a giant with the brain of a… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
“Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains… — Arthur Mathews Copy Share Image
“My biggest hope for this work is that it will help others to remember the sacrifices made for our freedom, and even… — J. Neven-Pugh Copy Share Image
World War Two was a world war in space. It spread from Europe to Japan, to the Soviet Union, etc. World War… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
Ten thousand officers and men named Smith died in the First World War. One thousand four hundred Campbells died, six thousand Joneses,… — Kevin Myers Copy Share Image
The pioneer labor historian John Commons was not wrong when he wrote around World War One that exploiting and deepening such tensions… — David Roediger Copy Share Image
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless.… — Joseph O'Connor Copy Share Image
“HYPERAROUSAL After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go onto permanent alert, as if the danger might return… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“Bells Screamed all off key, wrangling together as they collided in midair, horns and whistles mingled shrilly with cries of human distress;… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
If you go to Wikipedia and you look at the Tour de France, there's this huge block in World War One with… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
This war proceeds along its terrible path by the slaughter of infantry...I say to myself every day. What is going on while… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Grief is like a bomber circling round and dropping its bombs each time the circle brings it overhead; physical pain is like… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How many have gone? How many more to go? The Admiralty is fast asleep and lethargy & inertia are the order of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Wars always evolve over time, don't they? Iraq/Afghanistan is different than Vietnam, and Vietnam was different than Korea, and Korea was different… — Dave Abrams Copy Share Image
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