Second world war Quote by Andrew Marr

Don't make a fuss about a world war. At most, people die... Half the population wiped out - this happened quite a few times…

— Mao Zedong

“The war in China exemplified a fact often forgotten about the Second World War: globally, more non-combatants perished than uniformed participants. Civilians in China…

— A.G. Riddle

“The death-tolls during the last years of the Qing dynasty and in China’s forty years of non-Communist republican government are impossible to be precise…

— Andrew Marr

As Churchill said about the Great War, and he said this in about 1924, that it was the first war in which man realized…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“If we wish to understand the role of China in today's global society, we would do well to remind ourselves of the tragic, titanic…

— Rana Mitter

“Do you know what China is?” Ogden asked. “It’s the Soviet Union on steroids. It’s Russia with a world-class economy and ten times the…

— Matthew FitzSimmons

I think that as a Chinese person, nobody will forget that in China's history, there was a war against the Japanese.

— Jiang Wen

“Most American view World War II nostalgically as the "good war," in which the United States and its allies triumphed over German Nazism, Italian…

— Oliver Stone

“The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain 2 percent…

— Max Hastings

“China is traditionally Vietnam’s enemy. [Vietnam] had been kicking [invaders] out for millennia. And we were just the latest.”

— Mark Bowden

“Chinese problems, even if they affected no one outside China, would be of vast importance, since the Chinese are estimated to constitute about a…

— Bertrand Russell

“The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the…

— T. R. Fehrenbach