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Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

— Michael Korda

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

— Michael Korda

Naturally enough, I couldn't have foreseen the vast sea change which has come upon that scene as a result of German reunification and associated events.

— Brian Ferneyhough

I aimed at the Archduke. I do not remember what I thought at that moment.

— Gavrilo Princip

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

— Antony Beevor

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

— Amity Shlaes

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

— Giorgio Napolitano

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

— Richard Holbrooke

And now the momentous day, a day to be forever remembered in the annals of the country, arrived. Early in the morning on the 1st of July the conflict began.

— Edward Everett

When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only happened 15 years earlier.

— Don Kardong

✗Opposing Perspectives

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

— Antony Beevor