My mother, who was in the Resistance in the Second World War, passed away at 96, and it was like she was… — Jean-Michel Jarre Copy Share Image
We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War… — John Perkins Copy Share Image
The First World War was a war devoid of any virtue. It arose from the quagmire of European tribalism: a complex interplay… — Paul Keating Copy Share Image
“When he returned to Florida in the early part of 1939, Hemingway took his boat the Pilar across the Straits of Florida… — Captain Hank Bracker, "The Exciting Story of Cuba Copy Share Image
World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
“Beware of anyone who tells you a topic is above you or better left to experts. Many people are twice as smart… — Richard J. Maybury Copy Share Image
“[Father Dmitry] “lived through collectivization, the crushing of the 80 percent of Russians that were peasants. He served as a soldier in… — Oliver Bullough Copy Share Image
“In the mid 1980's I was asked by an american legal institution known as the Christic Legal Institute to compile a comic… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I. — Ivica Dacic Copy Share Image
“Though it was undeclared, there was a new world war being waged, where fundamental decency and respect for human rights were under… — James Rollins Copy Share Image
Under the ominous shadow which the second World War and its attendant circumstances have cast on the world, peace has become as… — Cordell Hull Copy Share Image
Most Icelandic people are really proud to be from there, and we don't have embarrassments like World War II where we were… — Bjork Copy Share Image
“During the Allied invasion of World War II, hundreds of life-like rubber dummy paratroopers were dropped into the French countryside. These distractions… — Aaron R. Yilmaz Copy Share Image
[On World War II:] The war, which destroyed so much of everything, was also constructive, in a way. It established clearly the… — Janet Flanner Copy Share Image
“TO DODD, PAPEN’S REMARK ranked as one of the most idiotic he had heard since his arrival in Berlin. And he had… — Erik Larson 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
“In my generation we did a lot of pleasure chasing—we, the generation responsible for today’s twenty-year-olds and thirty-year-olds and forty-year-olds. Before they… — Sidney Poitier Copy Share Image
“At the end of World War II, the average holding period for a stock was four years. By 2000, it was eight… — Scott Patterson Copy Share Image
My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for… — Ashton Holmes Copy Share Image
“The country was passing through turbulent times. British Raj was on its last legs. The World War had sucked the juice out… — Manjit Sachdeva Copy Share Image
I get offered a lot of science fiction work and there is a new project in the pipeline called Master Race, set… — Jeremy Bulloch Copy Share Image
Leonid Breznev was an old man and despite his own military experience in World War II, he on the other hand was… — Helmut Schmidt Copy Share Image
It took a world war, between 1914 and 1918, to draw the United States into a deeper and more sustained relationship with… — Margaret MacMillan Copy Share Image
“could be an antidote to clinical depression. Smith fed off risk and nerves for the rest of his life, noticeable early with… — Sam Stephenson Copy Share Image
From the ruins of the second world war, Labour rebuilt Britain and set it on course for European co-operation and membership of… — Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis Copy Share Image