“The breakdown of the European party system occurred in a spectacular way with Hitler's rise to power. It is now often conveniently… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“The Nazi and Soviet regimes turned people into numbers, some of which we can only estimate, some of which we can reconstruct… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines… — Melissa Terras Copy Share Image
“(What Jim had seen tallied with studies conducted after the Second World War by the military historian General S.L.A. Marshall. He interviewed… — Jon Ronson 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
“He won all those medals in the Second World War, which was staged by robots so that Dwayne Hoover could give a… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“When Seymour and I were five and three, Les and Bessie played on the same bill for a couple of weeks with… — J.D. Salinger 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
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“In case you haven't noticed, as the result of a shamelessly rigged election in Florida, in which thousands of African Americans were… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Rights compliance helps effective outcomes, it does not hinder them. That should come as no surprise because the 'human rights' in the… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
The First World War created the Second World War because that was a war between three grandsons of Queen Victoria: The King… — Tony Benn Copy Share Image
The post-Second World War simple system of social democracy and organized labour has fragmented massively, but just because people aren't organized in… — Duncan Green 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
Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The European wars of religion were more deadly than the First World War, proportionally speaking, and in the range of the Second… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
Katherine Johnson actually integrated the public university in West Virginia. And Mary Jackson had to petition state courts to be allowed to… — Margot Lee Shetterly Copy Share Image
In the aftermath of the second world war, nations came together to say 'never again.' They established the United Nations and agreed… — Keir Starmer Copy Share Image
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
