The hand that held the dagger has struck it into the back of its neighbor. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Goddamn it, you'll never get the Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me! — Henry Pierson Crowe Copy Share Image
“You kill yourself when you hate. It's the worst disease in the world.” — William Schiff Copy Share Image
“When they get in trouble, they send for the sons-of-bitches” — James D. Hornfischer Copy Share Image
“Always there have been six ravens at the Tower. If the ravens fly away, the kingdom will fall.” — John Owen Theobald Copy Share Image
What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“It is not enough to say, simply, the motherland called and we fought; woe to the dead, and to the living goes… — A.H. Septimius Copy Share Image
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
“I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.” — Nancy Wake Copy Share Image
I don't mean this to sound hyperbolic but there are increasingly, albeit really minor, similarities between now and how Germany was lulled… — David Cross Copy Share Image
Dunkirk has fallen... with it has ended the greatest battle of world history. Soldiers! My confidence in you knew no bounds. You… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
“I had my first cigarette when I was five,” he says, making rings of smoke. “With my mother.” — Steen Langstrup 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
“You know what, BB? We’ve got dark spots on our souls. We have to live with that. War is not about doing… — Steen Langstrup 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
“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
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
“I often noticed that the surrounding mountains inspired Hitler. He once joked that here he stood 'above the world' in an environment… — Heinz Linge Copy Share Image
“He’s never going to confess, BB. Why don’t we just shoot him and go home? I’ve got an important appointment coming up.”… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image
“Inside my carriage there was mass panic and I was in danger of being trampled, but somebody picked me off the floor,… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“We discovered that peace at any price is no peace at all...that life at any price has no value whatever; that life… — Eve Curie Labouisse Copy Share Image
“Whether my feelings were right or not, every day I felt relieved he was wounded. I was relieved he limped because he… — Jessica Glasner Copy Share Image
“The train, I was later told by my mother, only had about ten carriages to it, and there were hundreds of people… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“The British air force desperately needed planes for their military, and the US had lots of planes but couldn’t sell them to… — Bill O'Neill 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
“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
“ I was on one of my world 'walkabouts.' It had taken me once more through Hong Kong, to Japan, Australia, and… — Timothy James Dean Copy Share Image
“That’s war. It won’t let anyone get away unscathed. I’m sorry about Grete.” Verner aka ‘Jens’ in the novel 'the Informer' by… — Steen Langstrup Copy Share Image