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That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

— Paul Wolfowitz

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how…

— Antony Beevor

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians…

— Harry Browne

“It is my purpose, as one who lived and acted in these days, first to show how easily the tragedy of the Second World…

— Winston Churchill

Leading with its values gave the United States a sense of purpose in the Cold War.

— Tom Malinowski

In so many ways, World War II was one of the lowest lows imaginable, yet some of my most treasured memories come from that…

— Vera Lynn

In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

— Anonymous

Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

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

— Antony Beevor

I think we continually need to understand how important an event the war was - how defining, how central to who we are. Everything…

— Ken Burns

No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a…

— Art Buchwald

Our ambitions as a country in the mid-20th century reflected the global dynamics in a post-World War 2 international order.

— Michael Waltz