My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
When I created the Grisha, it was important that they be powerful but that they kind of represent the Jewish brain trust… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century,… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all the corollary horrors of World… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
During the first six years of my life, Hungary was one of the most important components of the Habsburg dynasty's vast Austro-Hungarian… — Georg Solti Copy Share Image
Is it not tragic, for example, that while in the last World War almost everyone believed it was the war to end… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
How many Americans, for example, are aware of the fact that U.S. planes dropped on the Korean peninsula more bombs - 635,000… — Mehdi Hasan Copy Share Image
“Ornate language tended to unsettle him. Passages from nineteenth-century novels might glow like hot coals or squirm like heaps of snakes. In… — Harry Dolan Copy Share Image
I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren,… — J. D. Vance Copy Share Image
We found out that we were dealing with a completely unregulated chemical, this chemical PFOA. This was a chemical that was a… — Robert Bilott Copy Share Image
“The Greatest Generation? They tell me I am a member of the greatest generation. That's because I saw combat duty as a… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“When I did show up next door, at 6:34, it sounded like World War III had erupted in the house. I’d let… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
“Forget bringing the troops home from Iraq. We need to get the troops home from World War II. Can anybody tell me… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II.… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Coming into World War II, we were seen as a conquering hero for beleaguered people, we are now seen as invader, an… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War II. There's something about that period… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
What we know from World War I is that some of our troops had acute symptoms of exposure to chemicals, had bad… — Christopher Shays Copy Share Image
All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it… — Jack Keane 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
“I had a dream about you. We couldn't decide on a sunrise. You wanted a tan, I only cared about the view.… — Bauvard Copy Share Image
Why should Americans care about the Nazi back story in World War II? If you don't have the Nazi back story in… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for… — Ashton Holmes Copy Share Image
The achievements of Labour in the years after the Second World War should never be underestimated, but they are now history. — Bob Crow 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
The colossus of World War II seemed to be like a pyramid turned upside down, and for the moment the whole burden… — Adolf Galland Copy Share Image
“In France, the war created 600,000 widows and left nearly one million children fatherless. In England three men were killed in World… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war. — Lane Evans Copy Share Image
I hope the World War II generation doesn't lose that quality that made them so appealing: their modesty, and the way they… — Tom Brokaw 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
My father was an officer in the Army, and my grandfather served in World War II, and I am so proud of… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
