“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians… — A.G. Riddle Copy Share Image
“General George Patton and others lamented that the Second World War had broken out in 1939 over saving the free peoples of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
Even more ominous ... is the fact that since the Second World War a new kind of intellectual has emerged in large… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I have said, and I repeat, at the risk of appearing sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“you see how strangely history repeats itself.Here and now in Bosnia we are seeing images like those of the second world war.… — Alija Izetbegović Copy Share Image
It became obvious to me that the generation who changed the world were my parents' generation, and not only in terms of… — Linda Grant Copy Share Image
I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Warsaw's historic heart was deliberately almost entirely destroyed towards the end of the Second World War by the German occupying troops. After… — Carol Drinkwater Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War 70,000 Jews were murdered in Latvia, 30,000 of them by summer 1941. In Lithuania, almost all of… — Geert Mak Copy Share Image
I arrived in San Francisco in January 1951. After the Second World War, the population was so uprooted. Soldiers came back home… — Lawrence Ferlinghetti Copy Share Image
“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and… — Merriam Press 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
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
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
It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
During the Second World War, we lived in a flat on Whitechapel Road in the East End of London. At one point… — Steven Berkoff Copy Share Image
“Using a daring and audacious method, the citizens of Konstanz in Germany managed to prevent allied forces from dropping a single bomb… — Jack Goldstein 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
People often refer to bygone days as a simpler time. Perhaps, more accurately, my grandparents' generation focused better on what mattered. Traffic… — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
There were no "unemployed" in the impoverished Polish countryside before the Second World War. Not a single unemployed. Every child that was… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
So many of the new nations which were established as democracies after the second world war, during the decolonizing process, have now… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan Copy Share Image
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
The history of the genocide perpetrated during the Second World War does not belong to the past only. It is a ‘living… — Irina Bokova Copy Share Image
After the First World War, it was, like, let's form the League of Nations, we have to learn to work together. It's… — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
If you watch a movie from between the end of the Second World War and the mid-1970s, whenever anyone steps out in… — David Frum Copy Share Image
“Many are convinced that the Second World War will be the war to end all wars, but Patton knows better. As a… — Bill O'Reilly Copy Share Image
“It is by manipulating “hidden forces” that the advertising experts induce us to buy their wares—a toothpaste, a brand of cigarettes, a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, there was a man who gave me lessons and things. I'm very dyslexic so he used to… — Jeremy Irvine Copy Share Image
“The Second World War created the need for a new generation of female heroes. Where could these women look for role models?… — Kathryn J. Atwood Copy Share Image
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both… — George Packer Copy Share Image
My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning… — Eric Idle Copy Share Image
“Tessio Zizmo had been a virgin when she married Milton Stephanides at the age of 22. Their engagement,which coincided with the Second… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over. — Giorgio Napolitano Copy Share Image
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace and prosperity… — Jan Peter Balkenende Copy Share Image
We have to be honest and state that Nazis were involved in all Austrian parties after the Second World War: in the… — Sebastian Kurz Copy Share Image
My parents had three kids right after the Second World War, and we were all sort of sickly. Then I had a… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Take Germany and Japan, both defeated in the Second World War. Germany has acknowledged its monstrous crimes to a certain extent, has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
As I have said many times before, I was among the first people to experience the German Occupation of France during the… — Paul Virilio Copy Share Image
When I see what is happening all over the world today - the violence - the stupid, arrogant, grotesque violence that is… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War, the British Broadcasting Corporation prefaced some radio broadcasts with the beginning of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony — BAH,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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