Being Quote by Robert Fisk

“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

“World War 2 is the ultimate geopolitical smoke screen, fed to the livestock religiously, with Hitler as the moral decoy, so that Planet Earth…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

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

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

— Giorgio Napolitano

It is important to understand the continuing, confused fascination with the Second World War. For most of us, the great unspoken question is how…

— Antony Beevor

“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

Tony Blair took us to war in Iraq on the basis of the supposed threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction.

— Charles Kennedy

The invasion of Iraq was, in ways that have since become hard to dispute, a terrible mistake.

— Jacob Weisberg

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

— Antony Beevor

Far from being aberrant and un-British, criticising a war in which our troops are actively engaged is a long-established parliamentary and political tradition.

— Linda Colley

Remember how the first world war broke out. It broke out as a result of the desire to redivide the world.

— Joseph Stalin