Bombing Quote by Gianni Agnelli

I understand that Italy could have been associated with the idea of an undisciplined country in the past.

— Mario Monti

By 1948, the Italians had begun to pull themselves together, demonstrating once more their astonishing ability to cope with disaster which is so perfectly…

— Gore Vidal

Italy remained attached to conservatism. It had a political class that lived in the past and didn't build the future. The past is our…

— Matteo Renzi

Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, despite the loss…

— Christopher Vokes

The Italian government, a free French newspaper tartly observed, never finished a war on the same side it started on – unless the war…

— Jean Edward Smith

During the late 1940s, Europe was a pretty bleak place.

— Chris Grayling

I remember the 1940s as a time when we were united in a way known only to that generation. We belonged to a common…

— Gene Tierney

In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies.

— Kelly Miller

“Direct popular government of a state larger than a city state had already failed therefore in Italy, because as yet there was no public…

— H.G. Wells

Were the Inhabitants of Italy charming as their Country, all other Regions would be depopulated I think.

— Bill Vaughan

There was so much going on in 1936 with the height of the Great Depression and the Spanish Civil War and Germany on the…

— Matt Bomer

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.

— Aminatta Forna