Army navy Quote by Annie Jacobsen

“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle…

— Andrei Cherny

“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

“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

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

“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

“When the war was over and the British returned in 1945, there were less than 600,000. A million people dead or gone. Nearly two…

— A.G. Riddle

“In France, the war created 600,000 widows and left nearly one million children fatherless. In England three men were killed in World War I…

— Joseph E. Persico

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

— Konrad Adenauer

“the Polish Institute of National Memory estimates that there were some 5.5 million wartime deaths in the country, of which about 3 million were…

— Anne Applebaum

“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 present destruction of Europe would not be complete and thorough had the German people not accepted freely [the Nazi] plan, participated voluntarily in…

— Raphael Lemkin

“Bavaria, May 8, 1945. While civilians embraced...and took to the streets around the globe...many infantrymen in Europe, brutalized and broken, sat alone with their…

— Alex Kershaw