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Second World Quotes by Antony Beevor
- I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for…
- Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
- The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.
- It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how would…
More Second World Quotes
- Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe… — James Buchan
- All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it… — A. A. Gill
- My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War. — Mikhail Baryshnikov
- During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school. — Lionel Blue
- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
- See, the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it, the bitter honesty,… — Garrett Hedlund
- If, during the Second World War, the United States had retooled its factories for manufacturing bicycles instead of munitions, we’d be one… — Ralph Nader
- Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that… — Paul Ricoeur