Somme Quotes

In just one year in Bosnia, thirty of my colleagues died. There is a little Somme waiting for all innocent journalists. (Robert Fisk)
The euro pleases dispirited people for whom European history is not Chartres and Shakespeare but the Holocaust and the Somme. The euro expresses cultural despair. View quote
George Will
More lives were wasted by the British generals alone on the opening day of what is known as the Somme offensive of July, 1916 than in the whole French Revolution from start to finish. View quote
H. G. Wells