Sentence examples for the first war where from inspiring English sources

"This may be the first war where we left no P.O.W.'s behind," he said.

She has been writing the book on and off for four years, interested in the Boer war "because it was the first war where the average soldier was literate and they wrote home and said, 'This is rubbish, a really bad war and conditions are terrible and we shouldn't be here.' It did mark the beginning of the end of empire.

Though war photography has always been high-impact, this is one of the first wars where most of it was done by amateurs.

(Thatscribed by Ryan Gaffney).

"We're at the phase of space now that's like the period in aviation leading up to the First World War, where the configurations differed wildly, with triplanes, or biplanes or monoplanes," he says.

After his experience at the Paris peace talks after the First World War, where he saw the victors impose onerous debts on the Germans and Austrians with disastrous consequences, he would surely be pushing for a restructuring of Greek debt, and probably something similar for Ireland and Portugal, too.

He also asked that diplomacy be given a second chance "so that we don't reach the point of the First World War, where people are digging trenches and dying in a war that will bring nothing but hatred between our two peoples".

Major-General Sir John Edward Capper (7 December 1861 24 May 195555) was a senior officer of the British Army during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century who served on the North-West Frontier of British India, in South Africa and during the First World War, where he was instrumental in the development of the tank.

Three regiments also fought in the campaign in Mesopotamia, the only other theatre of the First World War where British cavalry served.

He served in France during the First World War, where he was killed in action in 1914 during the First Battle of Ypres.

Here indeed is a strange contrast with the First World War, where soldiers in the trenches were sometimes sickened by the bellicose patriotism at home.