Dangerous Quote by Antony Beevor

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.

— Antony Beevor

“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

“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

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

The history of the outbreak of war 100 years ago and of the collapse of the fragile balance of power in Europe in the…

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

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

— Chris Cleave

The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions -…

— Edmond Taylor

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

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

— Winston Churchill

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

— Paul Wolfowitz

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

— Frank-Walter Steinmeier

History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

— Sarah Vowell