" tears’ after he told her simply: ‘It’s all up.’26 Churchill was the exception. He told Violet Asquith on 22 February 1915: I think a curse should rest on me – because I love this war. I know it’s smashing & shattering the lives of thousands every moment – & yet – I can’t help it – I enjoy every second "

― Niall Ferguson , The Pity of War: Explaining World War I