In the World War nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
World War II is the greatest drama in human history, the biggest war ever and a true battle of good and evil. I imagine writers will continue to get stories from it, and readers will continue to love them, for many more years.
My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
On the eve of World War I, an estimated two million Armenians lived in the Ottoman Empire. Well over a million were deported and hundreds of thousands were simply killed.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.
The advent of electronically synthesized sound after World War II has unquestionably had enormous influence on music in general.
My father took me back home, back to Greenwich Village, and he thought by taking me out of the orphanage he'd be out of the World War too. But no way - they got him anyway. He went in the Navy and then I lived on the streets.
These doomsday warriors look no more like soldiers than the soldiers of the Second World War looked like conquistadors. The more expert they become the more they look like lab assistants in small colleges.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.