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“Questa terra, signor marchese, beve sangue da millenni. Eppure non c'è guerra che, una volta passati cent'anni, non appaia a chiunque come del tutto inutile.”

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Book:El marques de Bolibar

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El marques de Bolibar

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“If the Germans had known Olive and had been sensible they would have gone out of their way not to anger her. But they didn't know or they were stupid. When they killed Martin Hopps they lost the war because that made my mother mad and she took out after them. She had liked Martin Hopps. He had never hurt anyone. When they killed him Olive declared war on the German empire.”

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Book:East of Eden

Source: East of Eden

“The consequences of the 1918 armistice that became the 1919 Treaty of Versailles slammed into the last century like a hurricane making landfall at high tide, pushing ever more violent waters up the rivers of history, transforming streams into raging cataracts and covering the global landscape with an ever-rising flood. Looking back over the last hundred years and seeing the fervent desire for war and the sadistic means in which armies murdered their way to bitter victory, we have to grimly conclude that the Great War never ended. The nightmare continued.”

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Book:Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror

Source: Wasteland: The Great War and the Origins of Modern Horror

“You are beautiful and I will love you forever, she had said to him that day by the lake. Neither of them ever forgot her valiant, youthful promise, but now—the love destroyed, his beauty mocked by the ugly significance of his uniform, she hoped he was dead.”

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Book:The Last Innocent Hour

Source: The Last Innocent Hour

“That was what was so seductive about the memories of him. Her sensual memories of him were crystal-clear and popped up to haunt her at odd moments. Even now, she could remember the feel of his cheek under her hand, the creases at the side of his mouth when he smiled.”

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Book:The Last Innocent Hour

Source: The Last Innocent Hour

“Her dreams, when they came, were not about her dead, beloved brother but were full of shiny water and a goldenhaired boy and menace. Somehow, everything always seemed to come back to him.”

Love War Romance Drama Germany Historical Fiction Historical Romance Wwii Berlin

Book:The Last Innocent Hour

Source: The Last Innocent Hour

“There is only one way to be a hero in a war: Not to kill anyone! There is only one way to emerge from a war as a human being: To put down the weapon given to you! This is the only honourable behaviour for both sides fighting each other!”

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Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“We’re all inclined to project our own qualities onto other people. But some people are different. There are those with whom it’s just not possible to make a connection.”

War Politics Books

Book:The Showman

Source: The Showman

“Bullets bounced off his obsidian-hardened body, a body forged to withstand even nuclear weapons. Yet, an ache gnawed at him, slicing through the armour of his heartless, battle-worn shell. No words, no weapon, could harm what was forged, but the pain of their sacrifice, especially hers, remained—eternally engraved within his soul.”

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Author:Blade Seventh

“They had been born immortal only to die in war.”

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Book:Horus Rising

Source: Horus Rising

“Bioweapons? No Iraq was the proof to the world that America will never bow down. We went to Iraq not to deliver justice but to show who ran things around here.”

War

Author:Bill Clinton

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