Apparitions Quote by Philip Jenkins

When the war started, religion and superstition (whatever the difference is) permeated the lives of ordinary soldiers, who lived in a thought world not…

— Philip Jenkins

It is also amazing to find just how religious and occult-minded some of the leading political and military players of the war were, from…

— Philip Jenkins

My great uncle fought in WWI. His stories fascinated me.

— Charles Todd

During my childhood and teenage years, everything I knew was at war. My mother and father were at war. My sister and I were…

— Viv Albertine

Depended on the soldier. To relax, most of them put on headphones or played video games. Later in the war some of the younger…

— George Packer

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with…

— J. F. C. Fuller

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

— Paul Keating

In war, mere appearances have had all the effect of realities; and that a person, under a firm persuasion that he can command resources,…

— Livy

My father was in the First World War.

— Doris Lessing

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look…

— Vivienne Westwood

The instant you say All Quiet On The Western Front people remember that great 20th century classic book on war, a book about a…

— Ann Widdecombe