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"for the first time in over six hundred years, a European army had returned to the cradle of Western religion, and the Middle East was never going to be the same. “For me,” he later wrote, “[ it] was the supreme moment of the war.”
— Mar 16, 2016 05:10PM
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The core problem, in Lawrence’s estimation, was that Great Britain had yet to grasp what was best for her, and he simply didn’t have time to explain.
— Mar 07, 2016 03:48PM
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He made an exception in the case of the Croix de Guerre; after the war, according to his brother, he found amusement in placing the medal around the neck of a friend’s dog and parading it through the streets of Oxford.
— Feb 12, 2016 04:03PM
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So inured would the architects of the carnage become to such statistics that at the launch of his 1916 Somme offensive, British general Douglas Haig could look over the first day’s casualty rolls—with fifty-eight thousand Allied soldiers dead or wounded, it remains the bloodiest single day in the history of the English-speaking world—and judge that the numbers “cannot be considered severe.”
— Jan 29, 2016 03:54PM
