Balkans Quote by Gertrude Stein

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up.

— Omar N. Bradley

“Bloomsbury lost Fry, in 1934, and Lytton Strachey before him, in January 1932, to early deaths. The loss of Strachey was compounded by Carrington’s…

— Jane Goldman

“Modifying Clausewitz’ aphorism—war is the continuation of diplomacy by other means—one could say that in ideologically divided countries civil war is but the continuation…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“At a conservative estimate, one million dollars will be spent by American readers for this book [For Whom the Bell Tolls]. They will get…

— Commonweal

Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.

— Adam Hochschild

“That was my story. Or at least the way I remember it. What happened to those characters and the places that had to do…

— María Dueñas

The Spanish Civil War, Britain was not involved in it. Going back a bit, there was the naval blockade to stop the slave trade…

— Jeremy Corbyn

“You will never find peace with these fascists You'll never find friends such as we So remember that valley of Jarama And the people…

— Woody Guthrie

There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the…

— Matt Bomer

“We piled into the back of his big red Sun-Times truck: Robertson, McHugh, a bagpipe player, assorted other regulars, and Good Sydney Harris. Good…

— Roger Ebert

“Glory of war, indeed! In war, all soldiers are lousy, at least when it is warm enough. The men who fought at Verdun, at…

— George Orwell

During the 1980s, international interest in the Nicaraguan war was intense. No conflict since the Spanish civil war had provoked such passion around the…

— Stephen Kinzer