Blackouts Quote by Harry Elmer Barnes

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

— Michael Korda

And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the…

— Patrick Macnee

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

— Oliver North

I think Britain needs to get out there on the world stage and make itself heard. And for much of my political career, there…

— George Osborne

I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as…

— Hermann Goring

I'm a big champion of talking about Britain's colonial past but the important thing is not hiding it away and giving a true account…

— Denise Lewis

“What might have developed into it great controversy in England over the duty to retreat failed to occur in the absence of conditions like…

— Richard Maxwell Brown

When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship,…

— Kate Adie

I was in New York when they had the massive blackout - all of Manhattan blacked out. It was a year or two after…

— Brett Goldstein

Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres,…

— Pope Francis

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

— Antony Beevor

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

— Tom Brokaw