'Feminist comedy,' practically an oxymoron, had a couple of good years after WWII. Chalk it up to the forced female autonomy that… — Grace Slick 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
An era that I specifically like is sort of late 50's, early 60's. I guess mid 50's too. I like these types… — Alden Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
“The occupying Russians, when they discovered that we were Americans, embraced us and congratulated us on the complete desolation our planes had… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“I quickly got used to being picked up by my mother, and taken to the air raid shelter near our home. Although… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Si WWII ne peut pas nous prendre, elle~même le diable en personne ne pourra nous joindre! ( IF WWII COULDN'T TAKE US… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
The WWII generation shares so many common values: duty, honor, country, personal responsibility and the marriage vow " For better or for… — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
“14 July 1942—Jerusalem - ...A magnificent parcel, covered in tape and seals, arrived for me from India. Inside were two pairs of… — Hermione Ranfurly Copy Share Image
“If I had known what the next six years of my life were going to be like, I would have eaten more.… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
Everyone carries the weight of WWII with them in their recent family history, and yet it is rarely spoken about within families,… — Chris Cleave 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
Coming out of WWII, there was the assumption, the hope, the vision of a world at peace, of a kind of Wilsonian… — Robert Dallek Copy Share Image
“A very important man used to visit her sometimes, and I met him too. He loved children and used to dandle me… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
“Two well-known Austrian folk figures, Count Rudy and Count Bobby, are standing in front of a globe and Rudy asks, "What are… — Georg Rauch Copy Share Image
I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat. — Mel Brooks Copy Share Image
If you look back historically at the post-WWII period on average, if you get a 100-basis-point increase in Fed funds, the spillover… — Gary Shilling 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
“Obsessed with Christine to the end, his last statement as he left his cell was, 'to kill is the final possession'. But… — Clare Mulley Copy Share Image
“I hope that in the final settlement of the war, you insist that the Germans retain Lorraine, because I can imagine no… — George S. Patton Jr Copy Share Image
“It was thus that in 1940 [Hitler] represented a wave of the future. His greatest reactionary opponent, Churchill, was like King Canute,… — John Lukacs Copy Share Image
It's certainly no coincidence that big bands became the entertainment of the army in WWI and WWII, and that jazz drumming style… — Damien Chazelle Copy Share Image
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Political calculation and local suffering do not entirely explain the participation in these pogroms. Violence against Jews served to bring the Germans… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
