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Perhaps wars weren’t won any more. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years’ War.
Ernest Hemingway A Farewell to Arms · 1929

Quotes

“They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”

Ernest Hemingway · Notes on the Next War, 1935 · Primary source

“We may now picture this great Fleet, with its flotillas and cruisers, steaming slowly out of Portland Harbour, squadron by squadron, scores of gigantic castles of steel wending their way across the misty, shining sea, like giants bowed in anxious thought. We may picture them again as darkness fell, eighteen miles of warships running at high speed and in absolute blackness through the Narrow Straits, bearing with them into the broad waters of the North the safeguard of considerable affairs […] The king’s ships were at sea.”

Winston Churchill · The World Crisis, 1923-1931 · Primary source

Authors

British soldier and writer · 1888-1935
T. E. Lawrence

British army officer and writer known for his role in the Arab Revolt during the First World War.

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Works

Ernest Hemingway · 1929
A Farewell to Arms

An American ambulance driver and a British nurse pursue a relationship amid the violence and upheaval of the First World War.

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Winston Churchill · 1923-1931
The World Crisis

Churchill’s multi-volume account of the First World War, combining military history, political analysis, personal experience, and strategic argument.

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T. E. Lawrence · 1926
Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Lawrence’s account of the Arab Revolt, combining military operations, political negotiations, travel and personal reflection during the First World War.

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Eve Curie (translated by Vincent Sheean) · 1938
Madame Curie: A Biography

A biography by Marie Curie’s daughter, Eve Curie, tracing her mother’s life, scientific discoveries, personal losses, public recognition, and later research.

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