Damn Quote by Gavriel David Rosenfeld

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

History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world…

— Howard Nemerov

If you really think about it, if we begin to teach history exactly the way that it happened - good, bad, ugly, no matter…

— Ruby Bridges

A lot of what we think of as history is actually just a version of events which may or may not be true.

— Sandi Toksvig

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

— Oliver North

WWII was, without exaggeration, the biggest event in all of human history, and it is still within living memory.

— Chris Cleave

Unfortunately, we don't seem to learn from history, do we? And you'd think we would.

— Ridley Scott

I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War…

— Howard Zinn

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they…

— Neil Sheehan

Unless we establish some form of world government, it will not be possible for us to avert a World War III in the future.

— Winston Churchill

I like to imagine the "what ifs" of history.

— Melanie Benjamin

History is made of empires, and the United States was by far and away the greatest, richest, and fairest empire that had every dominated…

— Lionel Shriver