Quotes about World war 1

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In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post — Jan Karon, Home to Holly Springs
There will always be another war, Gillia.” He allowed his cynicism to seep through. “Do you know why? Because there will — V.S. Carnes
On the face of it, no one could have been less equipped for the job than these gently nurtured girls who walked straight — Lyn Macdonald, The Roses of No Man's Land
Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ;Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;Disci — Gilbert Frankau
I crawled in a spirit-haunted placeMade wild by souls that moan and mourn;And Death leered by with mangled face -Ah God! — Arthur Newberry 1893- Choyce, Memory Poems of War and Love
My gad," one of them, warrant officer pilot, captain and M. C. in turn said to me once; "if you can treat a crate that w — William Faulkner
There are so many sad people nowadays that sadness looks normal. — Kate Saunders, Five Children on the Western Front
May the ears of Canada never grow deaf to the plea of widows and orphans and our crippled men for care and support. May — Frederick George Scott
Shitting fucking bastard! Fuck off you massive cockwank!’ - Misty Meanor, during a particularly stressful encounter. — Matthew Sylvester, Bitter Defeat
This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they c — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
Surely, though, I must have stolen into the future and landed in an H.G. Wells-style world - a horrific, fantastic socie — Cat Winters, In the Shadow of Blackbirds
A story is a wondrous invention. — Chris Womersley, Bereft
And then came a damp, cold night in Flanders, through which we marched in silence, and when the day began to emerge from — Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
When You See Millions of the Mouthless Dead"When you see millions of the mouthless deadAcross your dreams in pale battal — Charles Hamilton Sorley, Marlborough and Other Poems
At the beginning of the war…I had to look in on the War Office, and in a room I found a fellow…What do you think he was — Ford Madox Ford, Parade's End
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not — John J. Pershing, My Experiences in the World War
When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah