World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings. World War I changed the life of words and images in art, radically and forever. It brought our culture into the age of mass-produced, industrialized death....
After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts.
We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
World War II proves there's no God.
I was a lieutenant in World War II.
After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'
World War II was the last government program that really worked.
World wars have been fought and lost; for every war is against the world and every war against the world is lost.
The reality is that most of North America knows next to nothing of the 20th century's first genocide - the systematic slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians in the First World War.
The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.
The idea of progress - the notion that human history is the history of human betterment - dominated the world view of the West between the Enlightenment and the First World War.
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
We learned the value of research in World War II.
