Events Quote by Chris Cleave

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

— Michael Korda

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

Remembering is a necessary rebuke to those who say the Holocaust never happened or has been exaggerated.

— Kofi Annan

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

— Oliver North

What the end of the carnage of World War II meant to those who remember it, can never be forgotten, but to all those…

— Calvin Coolidge

The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans.…

— John Keegan

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one…

— Antonio Tabucchi

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

— Martin Scorsese

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

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

— Antony Beevor

“Historians concluded that in the twentieth century about sixty genocides had occurred in the world, but not all of them entered historical memory. Historians…

— Patrik Ouředník

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

— George Orwell