After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used. — Naoto Kan Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
The number one priority now is reducing the deficit that they [Labour] left us - the biggest deficit since the Second World… — Iain Duncan Smith Copy Share Image
The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
I went on a school trip aged 13 around the Mediterranean on a Second World War ship. Seeing lemon trees and orange… — Tony Hadley Copy Share Image
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq. — Robert Fisk Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
After the baby boom of the second world war 40% of the population were under 25, and it was London that realised… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood,… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that… — Juan Goytisolo Copy Share Image
It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
Most bayonets throughout history have probably not been used because soldiers just can't do it, something holds them back... the same goes… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I collect old first and second World War artifacts and things. I'm a little secret history nerd. I've been lucky enough to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today,… — Mano Khalil Copy Share Image
Clement Attlee, the man who led us out of the rubble of the Second World War and into a more modern, egalitarian… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
Everyone sees drama from his own perspective. My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War.… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“He looked around the room: the light from outside was laying a big pattern across Goody’s bed and hitting this little rug… — Jeff Arch Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Television* means ‘to see from a distance’. The desire in man to do so has been there for ages. In the early… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sixty-five years ago [written 2009], in a brief lull between storms in a remarkably stormy June, even by the standards of Channel… — G.M.W. Wemyss Copy Share Image
“The fall of the protecting class walls transformed the slumbering majorities behind all parties into one great unorganized, structureless mass of furious… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“As the years go by and I grow older, I feel compelled to record my experiences in wartime Germany. It is important… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Suppresed I Rise Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“With the coming of the war the situation regarding the Jews altered drastically. It is not widely known that world Jewry declared… — Richard Harwood Copy Share Image
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
During the second world war, my grandad was away for the best part of six years. — Grace Dent Copy Share Image
I think that perhaps the classic propagandists of the - in the Second World War was Winston Churchill. He was extremely skilled… — Alexander Haig Copy Share Image
Time and distance from the first and second world wars doesn't seem to lessen their horrors. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country. — Yoko Ono Copy Share Image
A film centered around the Second World War with a predominantly white cast would not have the pressure on it that 'Red… — David Oyelowo Copy Share Image
My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
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