The Japanese scored an important victory at Pearl Harbor, but the attack pulled the United States into World War II, and four… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I could write… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
My own father was a refugee from the Spanish civil war in the 1930s, later going on to become a BBC radio… — Michael Portillo Copy Share Image
In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century,… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
The first two Prime Ministers whom I served, Ted Heath and Margaret Thatcher drew strikingly different lessons from the Second World War. — Douglas Hurd Copy Share Image
Here is a pretty good rule of thumb for Democratic Presidents: if it didn't work for Franklin D. Roosevelt, who won four… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“Were there atheists in foxholes during World War II? Of course, as can be verified by my dogtags . . . A… — Warren Allen Smith Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Winston Churchill inspired my leadership philosophy. I've read a huge number of his writings, especially his diaries from the Second World War.… — Andrew Strauss Copy Share Image
As a result of World War II, European artists migrated to America, enlarging the scene and diminishing Paris as the center. America… — Arne Glimcher Copy Share Image
Democratic governments are not delivering on their promises, which is partly due to the fact that governments are less powerful than they… — Mary Robinson Copy Share Image
“War changes everything. The world is never the same after a war. Any war. There are holes… missing parts… The best you… — Bruce Jenvey Copy Share Image
As a Jew, I was taught that it was ethically imperative to speak up and to speak out against arbitrary state violence.… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
A country cannot simultaneously prepare and prevent war. I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“What you should do," she told Fat during one of his darker hours, "is get into studying the characteristics of the T-34."… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“Dad used to tell me about the guys at the VFW who could feel their amputated limbs. I feel like one of… — A.S. King Copy Share Image
“Barry, let me give you a history lesson, Ladybird Hope-style. When the Vietnamese got kids hooked on drugs and we had to… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
There was a deliberate decision after the failure of the League of Nations to make the next attempt to establish a global… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
“Brody, please tell me what this has all been about" I said. "The lead-up to the Second World War" said Brody, still… — Van Badham Copy Share Image
In the wake of 9/11, my meetings with Arab and Pakistani Americans, for example, have a more urgent quality, for the stories… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
I actually thought that the idea of doing a World War II movie in the guise of a spaghetti western would just… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone… — Horst Koehler Copy Share Image
“Wars come from egotism and selfishness. Every macrocosmic or world war has its origin in microcosmic wars going on inside millions and… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times. — Michael Giacchino Copy Share Image
“After Spain, World War II was simple. I wasn't even tempted to pick up a gun to fight for General Motors, U.S.… — David Dellinger Copy Share Image
“Yemen was, in the years prior to World War I, the ‘Vietnam’ of the Ottoman Empire, but not that of Egypt. In… — Fred Halliday Copy Share Image
The only other human endeavor on which there's more 16-millimeter film than pro football is World War II, and we're going to… — Steve Sabol Copy Share Image
I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now. — Zoe Leonard Copy Share Image
I was born in Norwich, which I still regard as the most beautiful city in the world, despite the attempts by the… — Jane Hawking Copy Share Image
Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a… — George Kennedy Copy Share Image
I can only tell you this and I used to speak about it all the time, we have a Navy that hasn't… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
There are Jews who were born in Poland before World War II and survived the Holocaust, who think Poland and the Poles… — Andrzej Duda Copy Share Image
Nitrogen-based fertilizers, which came into wide use after World War II, helped prompt the agricultural revolution that has allowed the Earth to… — Tatiana Schlossberg 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
Since the Second World War, the British Armed Forces have excelled at every challenge assigned to them in theatres across the globe.… — Gavin Williamson Copy Share Image
My father was an officer in the Army, and my grandfather served in World War II, and I am so proud of… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
