Second world war Quote by Nathan M. Greenfield Download Open image ““the story of these men of the Second World War is another”” — Nathan M. Greenfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Second world war War World war
“To those who fought World War II, it was plain enough that Allied bombs were killing huge numbers of German civilians, that Churchill was… — Adam Kirsch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many… — Laura Hillenbrand Copy Share Image
The great leaders of the second world war alliance, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, understood the twin sides of destruction and salvation. Their war… — Jeffrey Sachs Copy Share Image
“The three decades following the Second World War were prolific breeders of myth. The two great military victories on opposite sides of the globe,… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“The Second World War signalled the creation of the military-industrial complex in Britain and elsewhere. This militarized economy, born out of an imperial system… — Andrew Feinstein Copy Share Image
No one ever mentioned it, but thousands of men welcomed World War II as a way to escape their humdrum lives rather than a… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
“The Second World War, when it came in 1939, was unquestionably the outcome of the First, and in large measure its continuation. Its circumstances… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
I suppose that I just grew up knowing, in a very vivid way, that if it hadn't been for the men who fought in… — David Jason Copy Share Image
“THE FIRST WORLD WAR was a tragic and unnecessary conflict. Unnecessary because the train of events that led to its outbreak might have been… — John Keegan Copy Share Image
“World War II, alternately known as the Second World War, began with the German invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939 and ended on… — Merriam Press Copy Share Image
The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn...… — F. L. Lucas Copy Share Image
My father was an air officer in the Second World War. My brother was a marine in Vietnam. When I was given this opportunity,… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous. — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
Fuehrer, we are on the march! Victorious Italian troops crossed the Greco-Albanian frontier at dawn today! — Benito Mussolini Copy Share Image
Just as the people who lived through the Second World War thought different things on different days, I think everybody who goes through that… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
“The wealth of data to be found in social and political life. The belief that people do not want to make sacrifices is notoriously… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
You take a look at the history of African Americans in the US. There's been about thirty years of relative freedom. There was a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared,… — Anne Applebaum Copy Share Image
“History remembers Mussolini as the buffoonish Fascist, the ineffective silly man of Italy who led a lame military campaign in the Second World War,… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
In Finland, we learned quite a lot from our own civil war. The wounds were visible when I was a boy, but my generation… — Harri Holkeri Copy Share Image
“Great British painters, one might say, imitate the proverbial behaviour of buses. None come along for a century or more, then two at the… — Martin Gayford Copy Share Image
A war film can be propaganda and they're very valuable as propaganda, as we realized in Britain in the Second World War. Film as… — Helen Mirren Copy Share Image
