Yea ! by your works are ye justified--toil unrelieved ;
Manifold labours, co-ordinate each to the sending achieved ;
Discipline, not of the feet but the soul, unremitting, unfeigned ;
Tortures unholy by flame and by maiming, known, faced, and disdained ;
Courage that suns
Only foolhardiness ; even by these, are ye worthy of your guns.
Stichwörter: war suffering guns soldiers world-war-i gilbert-frankau trenches world-war-1 world-war-one
Mute in that golden silence hung with green,
Come down from heaven and bring me in your eyes
Remembrance of all beauty that has been,
And stillness from the pools of Paradise.
Stichwörter: poetry wwi world-war-one great-war sassoon
One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans (1888).
Otto von BismarckStichwörter: world-war-i world-war-one
The casualty lists went on appearing for a long time after the Armistice - last spasms of Europe's severed arteries.
Richard AldingtonStichwörter: world-war-one
A German attack on Russia’s ally France would, in reality, be defensive—but the English talked as if Germany was trying to dominate Europe.
Ken FollettStichwörter: world-war-one
Nowadays, we are all very familiar with the newsreels of the period showing the brave troops frantically waving their hankies from trains and smiling excitedly at the cameras. It just somehow didn't occur to people at the time, least of all the soldiers, that anyone would end up getting killed, despite the fact that the event had been plainly billed as a war.
Arthur MathewsStichwörter: world-war-one
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder.
Jan KaronStichwörter: war vietnam-war veterans posttraumatic-stress-disorder world-war-two world-war-1 world-war-one ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder battle-fatigue shell-shock
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