A Short History of World War I Quotes

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― James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I

“The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of the old Europe as well.”
― James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I

“Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment and Joseph Stalin a Georgian peasant?”
― James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I

“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the field the earliest; theorists concluded that mobilization of a vast number of men was of primary importance.”
― James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I

“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate one’s fellows;”
― James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I

“So beautiful was that summer that those who survived it invested it with a golden haze; it assumed a retrospective poignancy, as if before it, all had been beautiful, and after it, nothing ever was again. It became the summer that the world ended, and it was somehow fitting that it should therefore be the most glorious summer ever.”
― James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I