I have just written a book on the occupation of the Channel Islands, which is being published in Germany. Pursuing the Second… — John Nettles Copy Share Image
“It is interesting to note that the quantum-mechanical revolution was made by a virtually orphaned generation of scientists. Many members of the… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
In World War II movies, everybody is gung ho and patriotic. The Vietman War was somewhat different, to say the least. — Ken Wahl Copy Share Image
When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II.… — Jay Roach Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Some societies are also more optimistic than others: the U.S. and Australia are my two picks Tell a European you think there’s… — Jeremy Grantham Copy Share Image
Cartoons were very conservative. The country was very conservative. Although the liberals were allegedly in charge for a long time, there was… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
I think record cover sleeves really led towards, but at the same time the album as we know it didn't come into… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Four years of world war, at a cost in human suffering which our minds are mercifully too limited to imagine, led to… — Arthur Henderson Copy Share Image
Violence doesn't solve anything? World War I. World War II. Star Wars. Every Super Bowl. Who says violence doesn't solve anything? — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
“I celebrate ideals of individual excellence, self-reliance, and personal responsibility… But rugged individualism alone did not get us to the moon. It… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
Ever since the Second World War, television signals (as well as FM radio and radar) have served as Homo sapiens' emissaries into… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
In World War II, America was the Arsenal of Democracy, providing war materiel to our Allies that ultimately led to victory over… — Robert C. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea,… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
Time passes, as the novelist says. The single most useful trick of fiction for our repair and refreshment: the defeat of time.… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
“Before World War II, Warsaw was the epicenter of Jewish life and culture in Poland; 350,000 Jews made up its prewar population.… — Matthew A. Rozell Copy Share Image
And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen — Oliver North 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
“In the early months of World War II, San Francisco's Fill-more district, or the Western Addition, experienced a visible revolution. On the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
The enemy of our games was always Japan, and the courses were so thorough that after the start of World War II,… — Chester W. Nimitz Copy Share Image
After World War I, while France and other Allies were building military defenses modeled on trench warfare, German commanders were shaping a… — Charles Duhigg Copy Share Image
“Romano Guardini, surveying the moral and intellectual ruin that was Europe after the Second World War, wrote that we had entered the… — Anthony M. Esolen Copy Share Image
“The fifty-three-year-old former Eagle Scout from South Carolina didn’t drink, smoke, or swear; the most colorful expletive in his vocabulary was “dad… — Mark Bowden Copy Share Image
