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“When our new armies are ready it seems folly to send them to Flanders, where they will chew barbed wire, or be wasted in futile frontal attacks.”

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H. H. Asquith

H. H. Asquith was a distinguished British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1908 to 1916. He was a member of the Liberal Party and played a significant role in British politics during the early 20th century. more

“The marvel is that we did not all die of cold. As a matter of fact, only one of my party actually froze to death before he could be got back, but I am not able to tell how many have ended up in hospital. We were marooned in a frozen desert. There was not a sign of life on the horizon and a thousand signs of death.”

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Author:Wilfred Owen

“The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed.”

War Home Lost Pieces Fronts Fields Army Great War Underrated Bulgarians

Book:War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1918

Source: War Memoirs of David Lloyd George: 1918

“As we take stock on the morrow of victory, we shall find that nothing of real value to the human race has been destroyed. Our dead heroes will have won immortality. Civilisation will have gained new vitality. Humanity will have entered upon a richer heritage.”

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Author:Horatio Bottomley

“However the world pretends to divide itself, there are only two divisions in the world today - human beings and Germans.”

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Book:Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches

Source: Rudyard Kipling's Uncollected Speeches: A Second Book of Words : with a Checklist of His Speeches

“After lunch we went into the garden for coffee and I turned on the Surgeon-General with his graphics, percentages etc. of sick and wounded to entertain the Premier.”

War Garden Sick Coffee Etc Lunch Wounded Percentages Surgeons Great War

Author:Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig

“The cries of the wounded had much diminished now, and as we staggered down the road, the reason was only too apparent, for the water was right over the tops of the shell-holes.”

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Author:Edwin Campion Vaughan

“I wish those people who write so glibly about this being a holy war and the orators who talk so much about going on, no matter how long the war lasts and what it may mean, could see a case of musterd gas - the poor things burnt and blistered all over with great musterd coloured suppurating blisters, with blind eyes, all sticky and stuck together, and always fighting for breath, with voices a mere whisper, saying their throats are closing and they know they will choke.”

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