Alexander Watson > Quotes

“The struggle had been a people's war. The suffering and sacrifice had been immense. Those who survived the ordeal were left with the question of what it had all been for.”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“To crush the French army, one of Europe’s most modern, best-equipped and largest armed forces, in less than a month and a half was a breathtakingly audacious and, as it turned out, foolhardy aspiration. How could the Chief of Staff possibly think that it could work?”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi,”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“The Serbs had long sought ‘to shake the people . . . in its loyalty to dynasty and Fatherland, to mislead the rising generation of youth and to incite wicked acts of madness and high treason’.”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“You see those little holes?’ asked one showing an American visitor around the city in 1919. ‘We call them here “Wilson’s”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“bleeding to death battle’ (Ausblutungsschlacht).”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I