Battle Quote by Ken Follett

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

World War II was a historical event, but also a movie genre, and 'Fury' occasionally prints the legend. The rest of it is plenty…

— Richard Corliss

If I thought there was any hope of turning 'World War Z' into a movie, I wouldn't have written it as a giant, epic,…

— Max Brooks

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

— A. B. Yehoshua

By the 1950s The Novel had become a nationwide tournament. There was a magical assumption that the end of World War II in 1945…

— Tom Wolfe

Many of the best films made about war have come out after the wars have ended. People need a period of time to reflect…

— Irwin Winkler

We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The drama came…

— Gulzar

Many great novels have shown a world torn to shreds by the brutality of war. To do so, their authors ground their texts in…

— Uzodinma Iweala

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the…

— David Mamet

The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans.…

— John Keegan

I'm actually reading 'World War Z' again! It's incredibly realistic and it's written as an oral history through interviews with different characters. Max Brooks…

— Nathan Fillion

I don't think my generation carries the weight of World War II anymore. But I've got to tell you, even if we don't really…

— Diane Kruger