"Thoughts and pictures come to my mind, . . . thoughts from before the year 1914 when there was real peace, quiet and …"

"The First World War changed everything. In the summer of 1914 the world economy was thriving in ways that look distin…"

"The succession of events since 1914 has swept away so many illusions that even a summary inspection of the heap of id…"

"Everything would get better and better. This was the world I was born in. . . . Suddenly, unexpectedly, one morning i…"

"The driven and defeated line stood at last almost under the walls of Paris; and the world waited for the doom of the …"

"I don't know who won the Battle of the Marne. But if it had been lost, I know who would have lost it."

"Und löschen die Sozialisten die Sterne am Himmel für einen Augenblick, so wandere ich mit ihnen durch die dunkle Nach…"