War Quote by Paul Ham

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

“SOME DAMNED FOOLISH THING in the Balkans,” Bismarck had predicted, would ignite the next war. The assassination of the Austrian heir apparent, Archduke Franz…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“mounting a sustained war. Unhappily, these intriguing speculations”

— Charles C. Mann

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 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

“On 10 August 1914, five days after war was declared, Henry James, in a letter to a friend, expressed his revulsion at the prospect…

— Henry James

“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

“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

“Thwarted by the British and French on the world stage, Berlin decided in 1913 to concentrate Germany’s military objectives in Europe. That year Germany…

— Paul Ham

“Home before the leaves fall' the soldiers all shouted to their families in August 1914 as they marched toward an enemy who felt the…

— Jamie H. Cockfield

“August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.”

— Franz Kafka

“... and in the Final Days, a War will erupt unlike any before. (Dated 8 August 2012)”

— Alejandro C. Estrada