Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest. Rick Atkinson battalionbiffclash Change image and share on social
All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments. Randal Cremer armamentcontrolinterest Change image and share on social
Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death. Pope Francis asleepbrotherconscience share on social
My father had played the guitar when he was young, and my uncle Jack had worked for Kalamazoo, before the war, developing guitar pickups. So there was a kind of family thing about the guitar, although it was considered something of an anomaly then. Pete Townshend anomalyconsiderdevelop share on social
My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts. Jennifer Johnston bbcbeginbroadcast share on social
The idea that information can be stored in a changing world without an overwhelming depreciation of its value is false. It is scarcely less false than the more plausible claim that after a war we may take our existing weapons, fill their barrels with information. Norbert Wiener barrelchangeclaim share on social
I'm a good little middle-class boy. I live in Gloucestershire or Kensington. I don't exist in the war zone, but it's certainly not far away. I grew up in an area where it is a war zone - south London. Nick Love areaboyclass Change image and share on social
'The Accursed' is very much a novel about social injustice as the consequence of the terrible, tragic division of classes - the exploitation not only of poor and immigrant workers but of their young children in factories and mills - and as the consequence of race hatred in the aftermath of the Civil War and the freeing of the slaves. Joyce Carol Oates accursedaftermathchild share on social
An army marches on its stomach. Napoleon Bonaparte armymarchestomach Change image and share on social
I was researching a different World War II story when I came across an article in the 'Chicago Tribune' from June 1945 that knocked me for a loop. The article explained that a military plane had crashed in an impossibly remote valley of New Guinea that had been nicknamed Shangri-La. Mitchell Zuckoff articlechicagocrash share on social