Books Quote by W.G. Sebald

“I learned three things in Zurich during the war. I wrote them down. Firstly, you’re either a revolutionary or you’re not, and if you’re…

— Tom Stoppard

“In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians…

— Ken Follett

“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

“In other words, it was unavoidable, and probably inevitable, so we might as well close our minds and accept that 16.5 million people had…

— Paul Ham

“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

“Bavaria, May 8, 1945. While civilians embraced...and took to the streets around the globe...many infantrymen in Europe, brutalized and broken, sat alone with their…

— Alex Kershaw

“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

“There was a fetid atmosphere throughout the cities of Germany during the postwar years that laid its breath on all of the generation who…

— Kathrine Kressmann Taylor

“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than…

— Annie Jacobsen

“Then a strange moment came, a moment of the kind that determines the fate of nations, because when a crowd loses its fear of…

— Salman Rushdie

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

— Charles C. Mann

“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the…

— Johann Baptist Metz