Events Quote by Mark Helprin

World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine…

— Ken Follett

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians…

— Harry Browne

It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War II in…

— Tony Judt

I wrote about World War II because I didn't understand it. I think that's the reason that historians are drawn to any subject -…

— Nicholson Baker

World War II made war reputable because it was a just war. I wouldn't have missed it for anything. You know how many other…

— Kurt Vonnegut

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished,…

— A. A. Gill

Almost everything about American society is affected by World War II: our feelings about race; our feelings about gender and the empowerment of women,…

— Rick Atkinson

World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations…

— Joseph Stalin

I hate to say it, but I had a great time in World War II.

— Andy Rooney

I loved World War II. I didn't want the war to end. I wanted the war to go on forever.

— Russ Meyer

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

— Chris Cleave

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