Armistice day Quote by Joseph E. Persico

“The war was a factory that cranked out casualties with all the frightful efficiency of the modern assembly line. That had become its real…

— Paul Witcover

I have attended to your request about the armistice.

— Anonymous

“The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.”

— Richard Aldington

“Had Marshal Foch accepted Matthias Erzberger’s plea to stop the fighting on November 8 while negotiations were under way, likely, 6,750 lives would have…

— Joseph E. Persico

“The combat during the war was only a part of the horror. When soldiers came home, they were faced with new challenges, new fights…

— Helen Picca

“By the end of 1914, after less than five months of combat, more than 600,000 soldiers on both sides had been killed on the Western Front.”

— Russell Freedman

“THey were jeered and admired by both sides and were not shot at, for display and panoply were part of war, which was less…

— Peter Matthiessen

When the German people trusting to the promises made by President Wilson in his Fourteen Points, laid down their arms in November 1918, a…

— Adolf Hitler

Since this war began our sympathy has gone out to all the suffering people who have been dragged into it. Further hundreds of millions…

— Eamon de Valera

“the western front on armistice morning, the commanders of seven judged the war essentially over upon receiving word of the signing and stopped; but…

— Joseph E. Persico

Ordered that of the Indians and Half-breeds sentenced to be hanged by the military commission, composed of Colonel Crooks, Lt. Colonel Marshall, Captain Grant,…

— Abraham Lincoln

“Derrien had issued his battle cry, he annulled it by order of Vichy. “November 8, we fight everybody,” he wrote privately. “November 9, we…

— Rick Atkinson