My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices… — Erich Fromm 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
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War.… — Helen Mirren 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
What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is… — Tahar Ben Jelloun 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
“THERE ARE HUGE DIFFERENCES in living standards around the world. Even the poorest citizens of the United States have incomes and access… — Daron Acemoğlu 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 three decades following the Second World War were prolific breeders of myth. The two great military victories on opposite sides of… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The treatment accorded the Negro during the Second World War marks, for me, a turning point in the Negro’s relation to America.… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“My books are a subject of much discussion. They pour from shelves onto tables, chairs and the floor, and Chaz observes that… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
American strategists have calculated the proportion of civilians killed in this century's major wars. In the First World War, 5 percent of… — Colin Ward Copy Share Image
I have just written a book on the occupation of the Channel Islands, which is being published in Germany. Pursuing the Second… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
The Red Army and Navy and the whole Soviet people must fight for every inch of Soviet soil, fight to the last… — Joseph Stalin Copy Share Image
