Advantage Quote by David Harsanyi

“Ferguson also takes a swipe at the conventional wisdom surrounding aspects of World War I. “The key to the Allies’ victory was not an…

— Luke Williams

“Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved…

— Jeanette Winterson

Britain fought the second world war with men and money partly drawn from the empire and that, after the defence of the home islands,…

— David Olusoga

“... instead of trying to grapple with the implications of the story of empire, the British seem to have decided just to ignore it...…

— Jeremy Paxman

During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what…

— Thomas Jefferson

I think I was unprepared for war.

— George W. Bush

Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on…

— Honeysuckle Weeks

I came to the conclusion that war was an unacceptable way of solving whatever problems there were in the world--that there would be problems…

— Howard Zinn

When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to…

— Nevil Shute

A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and…

— Linda Colley

The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.

— Charley Reese

“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