The raising of that flag on Suribachi means a Marine Corps for the next 500 years. — James Forrestal Copy Share Image
I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah. — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell! — William Halsey Copy Share Image
“When you go home Tell them of us, and say For your tomorrow, We gave our today.” — Patrick O'Donnell Copy Share Image
“What is it about me that gets them all crying? It’s not the end of the world.” — Diane Samuels Copy Share Image
“His idleness was his refuge, and in this he was like many others in [occupied] France in that period; laziness became political.” — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
“Integrating the beauty of seasonal change into the residence was a concept that remains true even today even in the more cramped,… — Judith Clancy Copy Share Image
'Letters From Home' is a 90,000-word WWII love story with a twist, aptly summarized as 'The Notebook' meets 'Saving Private Ryan.' — Kristina McMorris Copy Share Image
Soldiers of the Reich! This day, you are to take part in an offensive of such importance that the whole future of… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
We don't know our hearts until life puts us to the test, and WWII fascinates because it was the last time everyone… — Chris Cleave 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
United in this determination and with unshakable faith in the cause for which we fight, we will, with God's help, go forward… — Dwight D. Eisenhower Copy Share Image
“If seeing her an hour before her last Weak cough into all blackness I could yet Be held by chalk-white walls -… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
God was pitched out of forced schooling on his ear after WWII. This wasn't because of any constitutional proscription-there was none that… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share Image
“How astounding that the largest thing he'd ever seen was still no match for the diminishing effect of distance. It made him… — Julie Orringer 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
“Here. Here I am. You've taken everything from us, but not who we are! We still exist! One day grass will grow… — Bruno Apitz Copy Share Image
“Every day not knowing what his future looked like induced a frantic need. He’d never been patient. Wasn’t good at sitting on… — Sarah Monzon 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
Fashions change, and with the new psychoanalytical perspective of the postwar period [WWII], child rearing became enshrined as thespecial responsibility of mothersany… — Sylvia Ann Hewlett Copy Share Image
“After the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, the United States entered into World War II to protect our way of life and to… — Kara Martinelli 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
“We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on… — Winston S. Churchill Copy Share Image
“But the public did not know the truth about what happened to the people in the trucks; they believed the stories from… — Alfred Nestor Copy Share Image
No matter how much of our liberty Washington takes away in the name of security, there are no guarantees that there won't… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
“(...)the question of the Jews has come to the fore, but like other questions which lend themselves to prejudice, efforts will be… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
“One of the things I cannnot grasp, though I have often written about them, trying to get them into some kind of… — William Styron Copy Share Image
The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
“He grieved too, Klara said, for the loss of a certain idea of himself.” — Julie Orringer Copy Share Image
“But we are the good guys. Aren't we, Uncle?" "I hope so. I hope we are.” — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image