Leadership Quote by Andrew Roberts

“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system…

— Andrew Feinstein

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

— Joseph Stalin

“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been…

— John Keegan

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“World War II did more than usher in unparalleled prosperity for the United States. It transformed America's foreign relations. The war devastated the Axis…

— James T. Patterson

“the British government was thinking beyond the immediate war to a future in which a defeated United States could be hemmed in by an…

— Troy Bickham

“War...strengthened the position of the armament industries...to a point...that these industries dominated the economies and therefore the governments of all the participating nations...war barbarised…

— Doris Lessing

Franklin Roosevelt saw the world as a possible alliance, with the UN involved, of course, where we would never have these kinds of wars…

— Oliver Stone

The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war…

— Jeffrey Sachs

Britain fought the second world war with men and money partly drawn from the empire and that, after the defence of the home islands,…

— David Olusoga

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

— Ray Bradbury

“As the Cold War extended and British influence diminished, so the Americans moved into traditional British areas in response to Soviet threats and the…

— Andrew Feinstein