This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.
Erich Maria RemarqueTag: first-world-war
...all the men in the photograph wear puttees. All the men in the picture are bound, trying to keep themselves together. That is how considerate they are, for the love of God and country and women and the other men--for the love of all that is good and true--they keep themselves together because they have to. They are afraid but they are not cowards.
Elena Mauli ShapiroTag: war france trenches great-war first-world-war
No commander was ever privileged to lead a finer force; no commander ever derived greater inspiration from the performance of his troops.
John Joseph PershingTag: world-war-i world-war-1 miltary first-world-war the-great-war united-states-military
In each succeeding war there is a tendency to proclaim as something new the principles under which it is conducted. Not only those who have never studied or experienced the realities of war, but also professional soldiers frequently fall into the error. But the principles of warfare as I learned them at West Point remain unchanged.
John Joseph PershingTag: military world-war-i world-war-1 military-theory first-world-war the-great-war united-states-military
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