Blitz Quote by Chris Cleave

I was brought up in the War. I was an adolescent in the Second World War. And I did witness in London a great…

— Harold Pinter

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks.

— Jean-Marie Le Pen

I grew up in London, a city devastated by the bombing. I am, you might say, a Blitz Baby.

— David Jason

My paternal grandmother drove ambulances during the regional Blitz, in Birmingham.

— Chris Cleave

My father was stationed at Clark Air Base in the Philippines, which had a hospital where they brought casualties straight from the battlefield. My…

— Annie Leibovitz

I spent my earliest years in Colwyn Bay in north Wales with my mother and grandmother, while my father was stationed with the RAF…

— Terry Jones

Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on…

— Norman Finkelstein

I was brought up largely by my grandfather because my father only returned from a prisoner-of-war camp in 1947 and worked in the nearest…

— W. G. Sebald

When my father died, I was living in England. It was very traumatic that he died when I was away.

— Sharon Creech

I remember my mother taking me as a very little kid to the roof of our home in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, to look at…

— Tammy Duckworth

My mother was a Chinese trapeze artist in pre-war Paris Smuggling bombs for the underground. And she met my father at a fete in…

— Colin Meloy

My father was killed by a German mine, while I lost other relatives in Allied bombing attacks. The Second World War claimed tens of…

— Jean-Marie Le Pen