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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

“It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of…

— Anthony Doerr

With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have…

— Ken Follett

If you were born in Britain after World War II, you see a continuous atmosphere of decline, moral and economic and political.

— Stephen Bayley

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

— Ruth Wilson

“In France, the war created 600,000 widows and left nearly one million children fatherless. In England three men were killed in World War I…

— Joseph E. Persico

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

— William O'Neill

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

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women,…

— Rick Atkinson

A common lament of the World War II generation is the absence today of personal responsibility

— Tom Brokaw

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

— Andy Rooney

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

— Robert Kiyosaki