East Quote by Emily Greene Balch

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

The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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 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 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

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

“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

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

— Pat Barker

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

“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

It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War II in…

— Tony Judt

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

— Paul Keating