Building Quote by Edmond Taylor

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and…

— Antony Beevor

The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration, the Second…

— Paul Keating

The more the history of the World War and what led up to it is studied, the more clearly those tragic years become revealed…

— Arthur Henderson

The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans.…

— John Keegan

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 in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

— Adam Hochschild

The second world war claimed tens of millions of victims

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

“It is incontrovertible that the First World War was a catastrophe for Europe. It remains hard to see, however, by what means its statesmen…

— Max Hastings

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

— Antony Beevor

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in…

— Antony Beevor

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