Current affairs Quote by Gary Sheffield

“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

“Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question…

— Tony Judt

The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

“The energy and material which we have all squandered on making war since even 1914 could have warmed, fed, and clothed everyone on Earth,…

— Alan W. Watts

“As the world stood on the brink of war in August 1914, the local paper of a small town in the west of Ireland…

— Robert Hutton

“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

“History alone looks upon war as a grand achievement; all else look upon it as a dreadful last resort.”

— Dennis L. McKiernan

By the start of August 1914, it was dawning on the British that a major war was about to break out on mainland Europe.…

— Margaret MacMillan

“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

“Far from shocking the rulers of Europe, the war that erupted in August 1914 was widely anticipated, rigorously rehearsed, immensely resourced and meticulously planned.”

— Paul Ham

“What is certain, is that war will not leave us as it found us. —WOMAN AT HOME, February 1915”

— Jacqueline Winspear

It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with the wider world.

— Margaret MacMillan