Battle Quote by Adolf Hitler

Dunkirk' is all big vistas, but ultimately a very confined picture of the war.

— Mary Katharine Ham

The spirit of Dunkirk is something everyone grew up learning about. After Dunkirk, everyone came together and it set the tone in the U.K.

— Fionn Whitehead

“Then followed an incredible tactical blunder. With the British expeditionary force helplessly retreating toward the sea, but far behind in the race and about…

— Herman Wouk

I knew it was called 'Dunkirk,' Christopher Nolan was directing it, and it was a war film. That was all anyone knew.

— Fionn Whitehead

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect…

— Irwin Winkler

And the next thing is that every war is going to astonish you in the way it occurred, and in the way it is…

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

Both of my grandfathers fought in the Second World War, and my great-grandfather died at the Somme in the First World War. I never…

— Andrea Riseborough

We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with…

— Douglas Bader

“None of them were equipped, trained, or mentally prepared for combat. For the first time in recent history, American ground units had been committed…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

Beautiful that war and all its deeds of carnage, must in time be utterly lost;

— Walt Whitman

War loses a great deal of its romance after a soldier has seen his first battle. I have a more vivid recollection of the…

— John S. Mosby

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson