Away Quote by Antony Beevor

The First World War, and especially the latest one, largely swept away what was left in Europe of feudalism and of feudal landlords, especially…

— Emily Greene Balch

The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay of nation-state…

— Paul Keating

What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.

— Paul Keating

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars,

— Pat Barker

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

The First World War began because one man was shot. The Second World War began because of a mad German dictator. Who knows how…

— Ronald Lauder

“The Great War (1914-1918) – no one knew then it would be the first of two – transformed the world in ways that no…

— Paul Brody

The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions -…

— Edmond Taylor

The war which is coming Is not the first one. There were Other wars before it. When the last one came to an end…

— Bertolt Brecht

The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn...…

— F. L. Lucas

There is no doubt that the course and character of the feared 'European war'... will become the first world war in the full sense…

— Ernst Haeckel

European nations began World War I with a glamorous vision of war, only to be psychologically shattered by the realities of the trenches. The…

— Virginia Postrel