"War’s rancours are quick to bite and slow to heal."

"Within fifteen years of the war’s end, totalitarianism, a new word for a system that rejected the liberalism and cons…"

"It was broadly true that all European royalty were cousins; even the Habsburgs of Austria, most imperious of sovereig…"

"The tragedy of the diplomatic crisis that preceded the outbreak of the fighting in August 1914, which was to swell in…"

"All European armies in 1904 had long-laid military plans, notable in most cases for their inflexibility. None was int…"

"The effect exerted by paper plans on the unfolding of events must never be exaggerated. Plans do not determine outcom…"

"Time, in all crises, is usually the ingredient missing to make a solution. It is best supplied by an agreement on a p…"

"The opening months of the First World War marked the termination of two hundred years of a style of infantry fighting…"

"The regulations of 1911 insisted that the riflemen of the infantry could ‘without the support of the other arms, even…"

"The First World War was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its ou…"