My father fought in World War I and single-handedly destroyed the Germans' line of communication. He ate their pigeon. — Frank Carson Copy Share Image
“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in… — Andrei Cherny Copy Share Image
The same suffering is much harder to bear for a high motive than for a base one. The people [during World War… — Simone Weil 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
“I do not know how the Third World War will be fought, but I can tell you what they will use in… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
The social safety net was created by a united society in the aftermath of the Second World War. It came out of… — Emily Thornberry Copy Share Image
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed. — Patrick Macnee Copy Share Image
“It is a natural propensity to attribute misfortune to someone’s malignity. When prices rise, it is due to the profiteer; when wages… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Well, it had to be about the stories and the people who live under the volcano, what kind of new gods do… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
I was a child of World War Two . I saw films of pilots taking off from aircraft carriers and decided that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought… — Peggy Noonan Copy Share Image
“Dr. Kevorkian has just unstrapped me from the gurney after yet another controlled near-death experience. I was lucky enough on this trip… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In 1945, just at the end of World War II, the American poet Muriel Rukeyser wrote a remarkable book called The Life… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
T. E. Lawrence was far more than a glamorous, swashbuckling, heroic figure in flowing robes mounted on a camel, leading the Arab… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
Hold it, Doc, a world war passed through my brain. He said, Nurse, get your pad, this boy's insane. — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war. — John Edward Christopher Hill Copy Share Image
My paternal grandfather, when he was in the army in World War II - he was over in the South Pacific, and… — Sturgill Simpson Copy Share Image
“More Americans died in WWII than in any other world war, with the possible exception of WWI.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
When I first met the survivors of the Indianapolis in 1999 while writing a book about them, their story - the last… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
World war 2 could have been prevented, if only someone had given Hitler a snickers — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The latest rule is: you cannot have protectionism - otherwise you will get a world war. Other rules say you cannot have… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
If you had said to anyone in 1945, at the end of the Second World War with the continent it ruins, that… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“During the Second World War a giant puffball was found under an oak tree in Kent, and was suspected of being a… — Richard Mabey Copy Share Image
