Mentions (8)
"Gradually firing ceased almost everywhere along the line that Christmas Eve. Men got up and sat on their parapets and shouted greetings across to the "enemy." Conversations began. Opposite the Queen's Westminster Rifles a Saxon challenged the British to come across and fetch a bottle of wine."
""most ethical war since WWI". quit ackchyually-posting and go exercise or something. obese keyboard tankie"
"However the older I get and the more I read and learn about the fate of millions of young men from Britain, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia, Austria, Hungry, The Indian subcontinent and Africa, the more horrified I am. Nearly 10 million young men, many if not most teenagers, died in horrific condit"
"Gotta respect Old Europe, they did it all for the aesthetics"
"How could you possibly defend any notion of 'Western civilisation' after such a senseless and pointless march towards death?"
"This western-front business couldn't be done again, not for a long time... This took religion and years of plenty and tremendous sureties and the exact relation that existed between the classes... You had to remember Christmas, and postcards of the Crown Prince and his fiancée, and little cafés in V"
"The United States had entered World War I on April 1917. Shortly thereafter Idaho passed a Criminal Syndicalism law aimed at the IWW whose national leaders had opposed what they called 'imperialist war in Europe.'"
"the woodworkers organized massive violent strike to obtain better working conditions while boycotting the 'imperialist' war in Europe."