“Men were snoring, twitching and whimpering, struggling with nightmares less terrible than reality.” — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
“But the old man would not so, but slew his son, And half the seed of Europe, one by one.” — Wilfred Owen 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
“If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the… — Ernest Rutherford 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
“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
“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
During high school I worked in a retirement home. I spent many wonderful hours hearing from service men and their widows about… — Charles Todd 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
“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
“Victorious troops are those who kill more, and here we were the victims. This put the finishing touch to our demoralisation. The… — Gabriel Chevallier Copy Share Image
I guess Madden had seen everything with out group, and everybody else had seen everything. (After coming to practice field riding a… — Ted Hendricks Copy Share Image
This was in the sense that if Dada was reacting to the morality and aesthetics of pre-WWI, then we were very much… — Stephen Mallinder Copy Share Image
“I stand there and wonder whether, when I am twenty, I shall have experienced the bewildering emotions of love.” — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. — Sebastian Barry Copy Share Image
“...and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the… — David Jones Copy Share Image
“Its magnificence was indescribable, and its magnitude was inconceivable. She felt overwhelmed in the presence of its greatness. Pg 87” — Mona Rodriguez FORTY YEARS IN A DAY Copy Share Image
“Throughout the war, it was always my endeavour to view my opponent without animus, and to form an opinion of him as… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“In the space of a single year, a crumbling rural village had sprouted an army town, like a great parasitical growth. The… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
“When the war (WWI) finally ended it was necessary for both sides to maintain, indeed even to inflate, the myth of sacrifice… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image