Country Quote by Antony Beevor

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

— Antony Beevor

Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that…

— Nicholson Baker

When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and…

— Antony Beevor

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind…

— Ken Burns

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect…

— Tom Hooper

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished,…

— A. A. Gill

I suppose that I just grew up knowing, in a very vivid way, that if it hadn't been for the men who fought in…

— David Jason

In so many ways, World War II was one of the lowest lows imaginable, yet some of my most treasured memories come from that…

— Vera Lynn

Winston Churchill could not definitely remember a time when his country had not been at war.

— George Orwell

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

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

— Chris Cleave

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

— Paul Wolfowitz