Books Quote by Anthony Doerr

There's no other way to learn about it, except through documentaries. I encourage documentarians to continue telling stories about World War II. I think…

— Steven Spielberg

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's…

— Jeff Shaara

We leave it up to books and movies to talk about WWII on our behalf.

— Chris Cleave

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine…

— Ken Follett

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

When I was in middle school, and teachers lectured about World War II, the conflict seemed impossibly distant and irrelevant. And it had only…

— Don Kardong

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women,…

— Rick Atkinson

World War II is the war that made our world. There's no question about that. The history of all the years in which I…

— Mark Helprin

When I was born in 1942, World War II was still going. And I began to realize when I became a young adult that…

— Graham Nash

I was going to be a great woman novelist. Then the war came along and I think it's hard for young people today, don't…

— Julia Child

“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was…

— Adam Kirsch

I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War…

— Howard Zinn