“The dangers of the sea should always take precedence over the violence of the enemy” — Ben Bryant Copy Share Image
“I didn't know then that the sweet life could be like honeysuckle smothering a barbed-wire fence.” — Anne Lovett Copy Share Image
In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My uncle killed by sniper in WW2. We were taught snipers were cowards. Will shoot u in the back. Snipers aren't heroes.… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
“Because words form the foundation of society. Ideas create culture. Control them, and you can control . . . everything.” — Roseanna M. White Copy Share Image
“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.” — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Within minutes we had left the station and were entering a cutting with trees on both sides, so the horror of the… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“They died. Along with three other men who had joined our group. We were betrayed. The porter had told his girlfriend about… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell… — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Today we are crushed by the sheer weight of the mechanized forces hurled against us, but we can still look to the… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
“In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less than… — Jack Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
“One day, I noticed that my father’s uniform had changed from a smart, light green colour with silver edging on the shoulder… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“A girl got kicked out of the swimming hole today. Inge Hachmann. They said they wouldn’t let us swim with a half-breed.… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“As the sun rose I could see Etna, a truncated cone with a plume of smoke over it like the quill of… — Eric Newby Copy Share Image
“I do recall hearing a conversation in our home in Strausberg, between my mother and my father, where my mother sounded very… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“After months of rumors, inference, and horrible miscalculations, the impossible had happened. The U.S. Pacific fleet lay twisted anad burning at the… — Joyce Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
As a very young man I signed a declaration - 'I renounce war and will never support another'. That was in 1939… — Donald Saunders Copy Share Image
“One woman, called Eva, used to visit my mother and sometimes we would call in next door to visit her. Sometimes Frau… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I felt so much more than horror. I was so afraid, shocked by what I saw. There were hundreds of men, women… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Appeasement was a policy put in place by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister to try to avert war. His theory was… — Bill O'Neill Copy Share Image
“After the Christmas and New Year of 1944 my mother and I returned to Strausberg, but the area was full of people… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Children accept the conditions they are born into, and, to a degree, I was getting used to the bombings, fires, and death… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“But you never knew where the bombs would fall in the dark, so night bombing was even more frightening than daylight bombing.… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
The institutions founded 'to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war' have failed. Since the end of WW2, some thirty million… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
“People change sides. You’ve always been a dirty piece of shit cop. You can be bought, Verner!” “Just like you, Ingrid. Just… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“I look at my mother, connected by a breath of glimmering hope, her red and shadowed eyes reveal that some element of… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real… — Daniel Silva Copy Share Image
“As he journeyed alone toward the monster that is death, we could do nothing to help him, nor the others still alive;… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“That pistol I gave you is a piece of crap. You can’t hit anything with it, not at that distance.” Staring at… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and… — Louis de Bernières Copy Share Image
“I’ve just been wandering the streets at night. If I came by a German soldier out alone, I would follow him, shove… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“The castle of Enysfarne was a dark and towering force that hovered over what was left of my innocence. It contained my… — Charles A. Cornell Copy Share Image
“Ernie got it,' I said afterwards. 'His experience taught him that you've got to fight for what's right. It gets you into… — Denis Avey Copy Share Image
“Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're… — Maureen Daly Copy Share Image
“At times the engine stopped, and grown-ups and children climbed out of the carriages with tins to collect water from the engine… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“I thought of the people on the roof and wondered how they managed to stay up there as there was nothing to… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“He loved children and used to dandle me on his knee. This was how the title came about for this book, Uncle… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“It was on 7 March 1936 that Hitler comprehensivelyviolated the Versailles Treaty by sending troops intothe industrial region of the Rhineland, which… — Andrew Roberts Copy Share Image
“Later, I started to understand just why these children ‘hated’ us other children. I understood that they did not, in fact, hate… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The man who had asked my name in Obersalzberg in the summer of 1934 had been a dominant personality excluding a spellbinding… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
