Eastern europe Quote by Victor Davis Hanson

“We often like to think of World War II as a triumph of freedom over totalitarianism. We conveniently forget that the Soviet Union was…

— Paul Graham

“Patton’s personality was immense, but his battlefield achievements matched it. ‘I want you men to remember that no bastard ever won a war by…

— Andrew Roberts

“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

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the…

— Charles River Editors

“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

“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

“War isn’t about dying for your country. It’s about making the enemy die for his.” Gen. George S. Patton”

— Lee Child

In 1945, when the Second World War technically ends in Poland, the incoming Soviet army liberates some groups of people but begins to oppress…

— Norman Davies

“The uncompromising pride of the Third Reich had been broken by the world-wide collaboration of people not avid of conquest, but of freedom.”

— Miklós Nyiszli

“Patton wrote in his diary on April 15th, the morning after his departure from II Corps: “War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It…

— Ladislas Farago

“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

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

— Robert Kiyosaki