My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're… — Antonio Tabucchi Copy Share Image
France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you look back to the anti-intervention movements, what were they? Let's take the Vietnam War - the biggest crime since the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
I don't really think much about how I would have fared in the Second World War. It's a topic that has to… — Fionn Whitehead Copy Share Image
“What I tried to make clear in Good Calories, Bad Calories was that nutrition and obesity research lost its way after the… — Gary Taubes Copy Share Image
“In the Second World War he took no public part, having escaped to a neutral country just before its outbreak. In private… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. That represents… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
The Russians and the Chinese have been making enormous investments in the military. We have the smallest Navy since 1916. We have… — Mike Pence 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
“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced… — Johann Baptist Metz Copy Share Image
My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man. — Reinhold Messner Copy Share Image
I can completely take a second World War gun apart and put it back together again thanks to 'Band Of Brothers.' That's… — Andrew-Lee Potts Copy Share Image
Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
As British and French imperialism ebbed following the end of the Second World War, America became the main outside player in Arab… — Stephen Kinzer Copy Share Image
If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one… — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
For all the chatter that Britain has moved beyond class, recent studies have found that it determines the life chances of British… — Johann Hari Copy Share Image
Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
