Diabolical Quote by A. B. Yehoshua

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine…

— Ken Follett

“The obsession with past trauma refracts World Lit’s sense of belatedness, even when the genre advertises its contemporaneity. You can argue that we’re still…

— The editors n+1

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty…

— Richard Corliss

(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So…

— Ernest Hemingway

Truth is always the first war casualty. The emotional disturbances and distortions in historical writing are greatest in wartime.

— Harry Elmer Barnes

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

I had a visceral connection to the period [of Korean War]. By visceral I suppose I mean emotional. But every fiction requires so much…

— Chang-Rae Lee

In the case of the second world war the distorting factor is not poetry but our seemingly insatiable need to view the war through…

— David Olusoga

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

I knew for years I wanted to write a novel that addressed the personal trauma of my older sister, who suffered - and still…

— David Means

World War II provides a string of celebrated cases of deception and manipulation.

— David Ignatius

I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic -…

— Bruce Feiler