Quote of the day
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare;
And left the flushed print in a poppy there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping flame.
James Joll

Born: June 21, 1918
Died: July 12, 1994 (aged 76)
Bio: James Bysse Joll FBA was a British historian and university lecturer whose works included The Origins of the First World War and Europe Since 1870. He also wrote on the history of anarchism and socialism.
Known for:
- The origins of the First World War (1984)
- Europe Since 1870 (1973)
- The Anarchists (1964)
- The Second International, 1889-1914 (1955)
- Three intellectuals in politics (1960)







