It is sometimes a comfort to me to think that the aeroplane is changing the conditions of warfare. In the next great war, we may see that sight unprecedented in all history, a jingo with a bullet-hole in him.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

Everyone always did miss everyone else in this war, whenever it was humanly possible to do so.

It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle ... There was much in it that I did not understand, in some ways…

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as ever, created enormous casualties on both sides.

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, m…

As soon as the war ended, we located the one spot on earth that hadn't been touched by the war and blew it to hell.