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
In the Europe which was created by the Second World War, divided into two blocks, each in need of a revolution that… — Juan Goytisolo 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
After the baby boom of the second world war 40% of the population were under 25, and it was London that realised… — Dawn O'Porter Copy Share Image
Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood,… — Jeff Shaara Copy Share Image
“When he came he first covered me with his revolver', Christine write in her official report, but it was not long before… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
My father fought behind Japanese lines in the second world war and it traumatised him. Everybody who knew him from before said… — Chris de Burgh Copy Share Image
I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and… — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
For more than twenty-five years my mind had been deeply troubled by the fact that these mechanical and scientific achievements ofman had… — Virginia Gildersleeve Copy Share Image
The problem of ISIS is not recent. Ever since the Second World War, people in this region have been, and are today,… — Mano Khalil 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
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
The Second World War ended with a radicalization of the population in the United States and everywhere else, and called for all… — Noam Chomsky 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
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
“After the second world war in 1948 they founded the UN, the United Nations so that a crime like the mass-murder of… — Ad De Bont 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
“Thus, in that inevitable taking of sides which comes from selection and emphasis in history, I prefer to try to tell the… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“DISTURBED BY THE INDISCRIMINATE USE of synthetic chemical pesticides after the Second World War, aquatic biologist Rachel Carson reluctantly turned her focus… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
“In Taiwan, where bubble tea was invented, people have been drinking Chinese tea styles with milk since Dutch colonization in the seventeenth… — Ruby Tandoh Copy Share Image
“After all, we are all immigrants to the future; none of us is a native in that land. Margaret Mead famously wrote… — Marina Gorbis 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
If you look back at the history of creativity in clothes - the French Revolution, the First World War and the Second… — Christian Lacroix Copy Share Image
“For a once renowned woman who loved telling tales of dodging bullets, wielding grenades and subverting dogs trained to kill, Christine's story… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
People talk often of Brexit as the biggest challenge since the Second World War. It is certainly proving to be a lot… — Betty Boothroyd Copy Share Image
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and… — Tariq Ali 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
The Ukrainian nation, as no other nation, understands and is fully aware of the tragedy and its scale of all the lost… — Volodymyr Zelensky Copy Share Image
The arguments over the limits that may be put on individuals suspected of sympathising with the enemy have occurred over the centuries.… — Jacob Rees-Mogg 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
Americans are not intrinsically imperial, but we ended up dominant by default: Europe disappeared after the Second World War, the Soviet Union… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
The First World War not only destroyed European civilisation and the empires at its heart; its aftermath led to a second conflagration,… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries… — Ernst Zundel Copy Share Image
The siesta provides a delightful detour from the working day and it also has a practical value as far as productivity is… — Tom Hodgkinson 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
Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today… — Jose Manuel Barroso Copy Share Image
When the Second World War finished, I was 23 and already I had seen enough horror to last me a lifetime. I'd… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
I was shaped by a pit environment and the Second World War. My playground was on the pit tip at Clay Cross… — Dennis Skinner Copy Share Image
