War Quote by A.G. Riddle

“Across Europe some 11 million men lay dead, including 2 million Germans, 1.4 million Frenchmen, and 900,000 British. Another 21 million had been wounded,…

— Liaquat Ahamed

“The President had been told, in December 1942, that almost two million Jews had in all probability already been “liquidated” by Hitler’s SS troops.12…

— Nigel Hamilton

“In France, the war created 600,000 widows and left nearly one million children fatherless. In England three men were killed in World War I…

— Joseph E. Persico

“In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim…

— Paul Cornell

“By 1912, the British Empire had a population of more than 440 million people, of whom only 10 percent lived in the British Isles.41”

— Thomas Sowell

“Many go to war,Some return,dead or maimed,But none return the same.”

— David Dingle

More than 55,000 men from Bomber Command lost their lives, of whom 38,000 were British. That's one in 10 of all the British servicemen…

— Carol Vorderman

“The fewer people go to war, the fewer the casualties. It’s not a good sight. Soon enough you’ll see.”

— James Farner

“The war in Europe was over. Germans called it die Stunde Null, zero hour. Cities lay in ruins. Allied bombing had destroyed more than…

— Annie Jacobsen

“The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents 23,000 lives…

— Andrew Roberts

“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian…

— Oliver Stone

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson