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“War was part chance, part common sense, part the pluck and luck of the devil.”

Book:The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

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The Judgment House: The Works of Gilbert Parker

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Gilbert Parker

Gilbert Parker, born on November 23, 1862, was a renowned British novelist. His works are known for their detailed portrayal of rural life and social changes in England, which have won him great popularity among readers. more

“The coverage succeeded in obscuring the extreme disproportionality of this one-sided war: one of the most powerful armies on the planet used its full might against a besieged area of one hundred and forty square miles, which is among the world’s most populates enclaves and whose people had no way to escape the rain of fire and steel.”

War Media

Author:Rashid Khalidi

“Have you completely lost your mind, Madsen? Children don't go to war!" Rasmus and Esben started jumping up and down. "We want to go! We want to go! they yelled in unison. "Please, please, let us go.”

War Innocence Absurdity

Book:We, the Drowned

Source: We, the Drowned

“Knowledge is one of the greatest weapons...Arm yourself well, for there are times words can reach where a sword cannot.”

War Knowledge

Book:Immortal

Source: Immortal

“He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so still and quiet along the entire front line that the army dispatches restricted themselves to a single sentence: that there was nothing new to report on the western front.”

War Death Irony

Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. Moon at night. Willow. Window. Candlelight. Fallow farrow. Ash and oak. Bide and borrow. Chimney smoke. Barrel. Barley. Stone and stave. Wind and water. Misbehave.”

Poetry Poem Fae Spell Name Of The Wind Kvothe Kingkiller Chronicles Bast Wise Mans Fear Kingkiller Wayside Inn

Book:The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“A year of peaceful days he had stayed with me, and still every night he went to war.”

War Memory Trauma Resilience Companionship Ptsd Inner Turmoil Peace And Conflict

Book:Circe

Source: Circe

“You have forgotten, though it is unlikely that you ever knew, why you were sent to Vietnam to fight. You have forgotten, if you ever even though about it, that Vietnam is the country of the Vietnamese , not the country of Americans.”

War Vietnam War Vietnam Veterans

Book:One Morning in the War: The Tragedy at Son My

Source: One Morning in the War: The Tragedy at Son My

“Stronger the military, stupider the citizens. Louder the ammunition, lousier the education. More titanic the tanks, more pathetic the primates. World in trance of arms, is a planet of the apes.”

War Military Nationalism Anti War Nonviolence Peace On Earth Peace Activist Disarmament War And Peace Demilitarization

Book:The Humanitarian Dictator

Source: The Humanitarian Dictator

“Stronger the military, stupider the citizens. World in trance of arms, is a planet of the apes.”

War Military Patriotism Nationalism Anti War Nonviolence Peace Activist Disarmament War And Peace Demilitarization

Book:The Humanitarian Dictator

Source: The Humanitarian Dictator

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