The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.
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When my elders mentioned 'The War,' they invariably meant that of 1914-1918, even after 1939, for the Second World War was merely the continuation of the first, 'an armistice of 20 years,' as Marshal Foch had accurately predicted at the Versailles Peace Conference, with some changes of side.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
I think the day you start building the war plan is the day you start beginning the postwar plan.
The D-Day moniker wasn't invented for the Allied invasion. The same name had been attached to the date of every planned offensive of World War II. It was first coined during World War I, at the U.S. attack at the Battle of Saint-Mihiel, in France in 1918.
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.
I think declaring a no fly zone over foreign soil is tantamount to an act of war.
We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.
We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.