There was great leadership in this country at the time of World War II. There was also unrelenting resolve at home, in America's factories and on the farms, in the cities and the country.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not.
World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.
Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.
I was brought in touch with developing post World War I ideas in Europe.
My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.
I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.
Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will ...
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my ...
It would be well to realize that the talk of ‘humane methods of warfare’, of the ‘rules of civilized warfare’, and all such homage to the finer sentiments of the race are hypocritical and unreal, and only intended for the consumption of stay-...
So you, too, like fruitcake? (RW on meeting Lenin in Zurich during World War I.)
When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.
And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.
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 were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be br...
Author describes that a failed sea captain, "vacillated miserably between self-recrimination and defensiveness.
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
