“Marvelous, isn’t it, how these Germans can shoot back at us even when they’re fucking dead.” — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“It’s finding out where we came from that helps guide us to where we are going.” — Mona Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom … These are the beginnings of sorrows.” — Cynthia Harrod-Eagles Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to say, simply, the motherland called and we fought; woe to the dead, and to the living goes… — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
“If war was once a chivalrous duel, it is now a dastardly slaughter.” — Artur von Bolfras Copy Share Image
“I have lived now for over a century, yet I can still say with complete confidence that no one can claim to… — John Biggins Copy Share Image
“The great rich nation had made triumphant war, suffered enough for poignancy but not enough for bitterness - hence the carnival, the… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“But this anti-war protest, is far from a success; it is just a placebo for the people. These peacemakers feel so satisfied,… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“No thanky-you; you can't overcome hatred with more hatred. Force can kill the liar but not the lie, the hater but not… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“In 1917 I was only beginning to learn that life, for the majority of the population, is an unlovely struggle against unfair… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“If you are not a Conchie, what are you man?' demanded the Major. After some moments' thought, Francis said, 'I am a… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“Her soul died that night under a radiant silver moon in the spring of 1918 on the side of a blood-spattered trench.… — Helen Zenna Smith Copy Share Image
“… the white stain of chalk mixed with the clay topsoil zigzagging across the freshly-turned earth, the tell-tale marks of the German… — Anthony Price Copy Share Image
“This is what is called dying for your country, but it is actually selling your soul to a few profiteers for a… — Peter Hart Copy Share Image
“God is British to the bone, and every fellow here knows it. You can't exploit him to save yourself, you blaspheming cadaverous-prig;… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“As Ramses did the same for his mother, he saw that her eyes were fixed on him. She had been unusually silent.… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“I thought it would be a good thing to follow John Redmond’s words. I thought for my mother’s sake, her gentle soul,… — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“Alfred is taken past this broom, and enters this room; which can only be described as 'piecemeal'. It is full of pieces… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the… — M.A. Lossl Copy Share Image
“She did not respond, only clung harder to my embrace, and I held her with all the afflictions of a man torn… — Jamie L. Harding Copy Share Image
“Emerson abandoned irony for blunt and passionate speech. 'This war has been a monumental blunder from the start! Britain is not solely… — Elizabeth Peters Copy Share Image
“This is a story about understanding overcoming compulsion, love overcoming revulsion; and oneness overcoming abuse. About the rare sort of kind-geniality, and… — Joss Sheldon Copy Share Image
“It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all… — James Connolly Copy Share Image
“I look out of the window; – beyond the picture of the sunlit street appears a range of hills, distant and light;… — Erich Maria Remarque 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
