War Quote by Andrei Cherny

There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many…

— Rick Atkinson

“The Germans had more men killed and wounded at Verdun, 325,000, than all the 230,000 men deployed in the field at Stalingrad twenty-six years later.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin---about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of…

— Andrei Cherny

When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions.

— John Mearsheimer

“The ground over which the bulk of the battles raged was only about eighty-five miles wide, a relatively modest battleground but a rather large…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Across Europe some 11 million men lay dead, including 2 million Germans, 1.4 million Frenchmen, and 900,000 British. Another 21 million had been wounded,…

— Liaquat Ahamed

“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”

— Andrei Cherny

“Passchendaele ended in breathtaking losses. More than 310,000 British, 85,000 Frenchmen, and 260,000 Germans, a total of 655,000, had fallen in a battle fought…

— Joseph E. Persico

“The statistics are unequivocal: up until the end of 1944, on a man-for-man basis, the Germans inflicted between 20 and 50 per cent higher…

— Andrew Roberts

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

— Konrad Adenauer

“There had been laid down in that place, I was told, the remains of about six million persons—our conventional total for the number of…

— William T. Vollmann