Attraction Quote by Drew Gilpin Faust

The professed war-weariness among populations who have sent only a small percentage of their sons and daughters to fight in recent wars may derive…

— H. R. McMaster

And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn…

— Tim O'Brien

“themselves to remember the truth, and not the sentimentalities with which we all shield ourselves from the horrors of which we are capable ……

— Doris Lessing

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

— Thomas Jefferson

The single combats of the heroes of history or fable amuse our fancy and engage our affections: the skillful evolutions of war may inform…

— Edward Gibbon

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

The allure of military life and its heroic promise seem indestructible, but nothing threatens the romance of war more effectively than war itself.

— Elizabeth Samet

“Forty-three years old, and the war occurred half a lifetime ago, and yet the remembering makes it now. And sometimes remembering will lead to…

— Tim O'Brien

“They are a different breed of warriors. They don’t see war as an extension of politics; they see it as a life-and-death struggle irrespective…

— Dale Comstock

“They were learning about others. A common experience: the guy who talked toughest, bragged most, excelled in maneuvers, everyone’s pick to be the top…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“War is too messy to produce easy heroes and villains; there are always brave people on the wrong side, and evil men among the…

— Ben Macintyre

“If we really saw war, what war does to young minds and bodies, it would be impossible to embrace the myth of war. If…

— Chris Hedges