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And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really.…

— George Martin

Those of us who were 12 or 13 when the war started were absolutely thrown into the mainstream. We had to grow up instantly…

— Angela Lansbury

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience.…

— Linda Grant

The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little…

— Jan Peter Balkenende

I was born 20 years after World War II had ended, and people of my generation mostly thought of it as a terrible period…

— Christine Leunens

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of…

— Neil Sheehan

“Housman would not have appealed so deeply to the people who were young in 1920 if it had not been for another strain in…

— George Orwell

When I was 25, it was not like I was in a war zone or a hospice. I had a colourful backstory, but lots…

— Lou Sanders

I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is…

— Chris Hedges

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away…

— Chris Cleave

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

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who…

— Andrea Riseborough