Quotes Tagged With :wwii

My parents didn't settle for the lives their parents lived. They stepped out and up, my father lying....

Birkenau simmered in the July sun like some hideous brew, a witch's potion of blood, sweat, smoke, and....

If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?

The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day....

I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted....

The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders....

After the prayer they executed an armed robbery. That sounds very strange this many years later: prayer....

It wasn't my choice to write this story...it was my responsibility.

A third-grader when WWII started, I was also waging my own "war effort." It was deeply magical thinking—I....

Again, a conversation with the doctor. We always come back to the same point: "The church may not mix....