British Quote by Vera Lynn

I thought my story, my experiences as a 2-year-old 'evacuee' from London at the outset of the war, could be important. What happened to…

— Vanessa Redgrave

[My maternal grandmother ] was a teacher in London and elsewhere during the war, although the children she taught were not the "lost children"…

— Chris Cleave

I think we put our children at an enormous disadvantage by not educating them in war, by not letting them understand about it at…

— Suzanne Collins

Quite out of proportion to the size of the country, British children's writers swept the world in the 20th century. We should celebrate them.

— Gyles Brandreth

I'm so patriotic, I think every British kid should have a chance to grow up to be our head of state.

— Johann Hari

The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents…

— Doris Lessing

Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what…

— Antony Beevor

The prospect of voluntarily travelling to a war zone with your young children is not one which most British women would ever even consider.

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

As a child growing up, watching England, it was one of those things you always wanted to be involved in.

— Michail Antonio

Children being groomed to travel abroad or disagree with British values could happen anywhere.

— Nicky Morgan

Having been raised during the war, I know very well how childhood hampered by displacement, poverty, violence, and fear looks like.

— Edin Dzeko

One of the reasons it's important for me to write about war is I really think that the concept of war, the specifics of…

— Suzanne Collins