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World War I

Tuesday 31st of March 2026

Punt returners say But not on all four. Winston Churchill, responding to his private secretary, who said, in 1918, that he was so grateful for America's contributions to winning WWI that he would kiss Uncle Sam “on both cheeks” © 2019 Kwiple.com
Selfie I am going to take my Herodotus as a guide-book. Patrick Shaw-Stewart, on learning he would be sent to fight at Gallipoli, in Turkey, near the site of the ancient battles at Troy © 2016 Kwiple.com
War War used to end by defeating the enemy's army, now war ends by defeating the enemy's people. None of us knew that before this war, and we had to learn it for the first time. Erich Ludendorff, German general during World War I © 2024 Kwiple.com
World War I It was in 1915 that the old world ended. D. H. Lawrence, Kangaroo © 2016 Kwiple.com
World War I No truce or parley mitigated the strife of the armies. The wounded died between the lines; the dead mouldered into the soil. Poison gas in many forms stifled or seared the soldiers.  Liquid fire was projected upon their bodies. Men fell from the air in flames, or were smothered, often slowly, in the dark recesses of the sea. Winxton Churchill, The World Crisis © 2023 Kwiple.com
 
World War I A saying went round, “We went to war with Rupert Brooke and came home with Siegfried Sassoon.” May Wedderburn Cannan © 2016 Kwiple.com