29 Quotes About World-war-one

We are like those abandoned fields full of shell holes in France, no less peaceful than other ploughed lands about them, but in them are lying still the buried explosives, and until these shall have been dug out and cleared away, to plough will be a danger both to the plougher and the ploughed.

I crawled in a spirit-haunted placeMade wild by souls that moan and mourn;And Death leered by with mangled face -Ah God! I prayed, I prayed for dawn.

The old men were still running the country. The politicians who had caused millions of deaths were now celebrating, as if they had done something wonderful.

After the 'war to end war' they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making a 'Peace to end Peace.

The ruins of Chief Azul's house can still be seen to the right as your enter the town of Sacaton from the north--a two story structure with the roof fallen in. In front, across the road to the south is a monument which was put up in memory of the first Indian killed in World War One who was a Pima Indian from our tribe.[page 51, Progress]

The struggle had been a people's war. The suffering and sacrifice had been immense. Those who survived the ordeal were left with the question of what it had all been for.

War had taken hold of them and would never let them go. They would never really belong to their homes again. The war was over ... but the armies were still in being.

One of the surprising realities about the Western Front was that intense action and peril were surrounded by long periods of having very little to do.

. Leaving the city behind, they entered the wasted countryside. Large shell holes, jagged stumps of full-grown trees, and gas residue clinging to puddles all pointed to the power of modern warfare. No living thing remained. The odor of rotting human corpses filled what was left of the woods: the dead wearing the uniforms of France, Germany, and the US.