“For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“Confession is good for the soul even after the soul has been claimed” (p. 381).” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
“It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.” — Jessie Douglas Kerruish Copy Share Image
“They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
I am now working on the second WWI story and find the challenge marvelous. — Anne Perry Copy Share Image
“It is as if Quincey has replaced the sun in my universe and it is around him that I spin.” — Kate Cary 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
“I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a… — Eugene V. Debs Copy Share Image
Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...The war (WWI) cost your Uncle Sam $52 billion. $39 billion was expended in the actual war period. This expenditure yielded $16 billion in profits. — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
“The bargaining position of the victor always diminishes with time. Whatever is not exacted during the shock of defeat becomes increasingly difficult… — Henry Kissinger Copy Share Image
“Only Nicky [Nicholas Romanov II], the Czar, was [Kaiser Wilhelm]'s friend, neither clever nor strong like himself, but at least malleable.” — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
“But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective… — David Jones Copy Share Image
“... We had suddenly learned to see. And we saw that there was nothing of their world left. We were all at… — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
“He had volunteered early, rather than waiting to be conscripted, for he felt a duty and an obligation to serve, and believed… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“...I found that much of the romance had left the trenches. The old days, from the beginning to July, 1915, were all… — Bruce Bairnsfather Copy Share Image
I am a messenger who will bring back word from the men who are fighting (WWI) to those who want the war… — Paul Nash Copy Share Image
“There is much argument here about what is respectable and what is not, and what a good gel should or should not… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
“They had also brought in a piece of human scrap so monstrous that everyone recoiled at the sight, that it shocked men… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“France is to me the heroine in the romance of all the nations of all time. This feeling was born in me… — William Arthur Sirmon 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
...Senate Doc. # 259. The 65th congress(:)...The coal companies made between 100% and 7,856% on their capital stock during the war (to… — Smedley Butler Copy Share Image
“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy War, and the orators who talk so much about… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
“Certainly, blame for all this [turmoil in the Middle East] doesn't rest solely with the terrible decisions that were made at the… — Scott Anderson Copy Share Image
“The Second World War created the need for a new generation of female heroes. Where could these women look for role models?… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“He saw the delicate blades of grass which the bodies of his comrades had fertilized; he saw the little shoots on the… — Humphrey Cobb Copy Share Image
“For a time, the word Weltpolitik seemed to capture the mood of the German middle classes and the national-minded quality press. The… — Christopher Munro Clark Copy Share Image
“Those long uneven lines Standing as patiently As if they were stretched outside The Oval or Villa Park, The crowns of hats,… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
“(On WWI:) A man of importance had been shot at a place I could not pronounce in Swahili or in English, and,… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
“Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.” — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“In short, the war got off to a pretty good start, with the help of chaos.” — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.” Winston Churchill” — Tammy Hinton Copy Share Image
“The landscape had been so maimed by this new kind of warfare it was as if human architects of great genius had… — Christopher Buehlman Copy Share Image
“I keep such music in my brain No din this side of death can quell; Glory exulting over pain, And beauty, garlanded… — Siegfried Sassoon Copy Share Image
“As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.” — David Jones Copy Share Image
“I had been astonished to find myself in the middle of the war yet not be able to find it, unable to… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully… — Jacqueline Winspear Copy Share Image
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