“We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into… — Denis Avey Copy Share Image
“We had seen too many horrors already, and we could see and hear more explosions all around us as the war continued,… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my… — Charles A. Cornell Copy Share Image
“At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're… — Maureen Daly Copy Share Image
“I thought of the people on the roof and wondered how they managed to stay up there as there was nothing to… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I felt so much more than horror. I was so afraid, shocked by what I saw. There were hundreds of men, women… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Appeasement was a policy put in place by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister to try to avert war. His theory was… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“With our collective shock, what we saw seemed to be frozen into a state of suspended animation. Indelibly etched into our memories… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“After the Christmas and New Year of 1944 my mother and I returned to Strausberg, but the area was full of people… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“It was on 7 March 1936 that Hitler comprehensivelyviolated the Versailles Treaty by sending troops intothe industrial region of the Rhineland, which… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Later, I started to understand just why these children ‘hated’ us other children. I understood that they did not, in fact, hate… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“But the public did not know the truth about what happened to the people in the trucks; they believed the stories from… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The Doctor: Amazing. Nancy: What is? The Doctor: 1941. Right now, not very far from here, the German war machine is rolling… — Steven Moffat Copy Share Image
