Celine Buckens Quotes

I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.

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.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

The Great War was a progressive revelation and disillusionment.

The stories from World War I are worse than anything I have ever read.

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

We have in our heads a pretty well-defined narrative of the First World War, and there are certain events that are obviously key.

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 to make war.

At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

School-leavers unfortunately will come away thinking the First World War consisted simply of 'going over the top' on the Western Front to slaughter in no-man's-land, when the conflict extended so much further, to the collapse of four empires and numerous civil wars.

The year of my birth, 1940, was the fulcrum of America in the twentieth century, when the nation was balanced precariously between the darkness of the Great Depression on one side and the storms of war in Europe and the Pacific on the other.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

The first war zone was declared by Great Britain. She gave us and the world notice of it on the 4th day of November, 1914. The zone became effective Nov. 5, 1914.

Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.

With Germany herself falling, it is not strange that the nations leagued with her also went down to defeat.

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

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism.

[Describing World War I:] A short cleansing thunderstorm.

Everyone has come to recognize that the Great War [World War I] was utter social insanity, and was a crazy war, and we had no business in it at all.

In Hitler’s frantic mental haze Already Hull and Cardiff blaze And Paul’s grey dome rocks to the blast Of air torpedoes screaming past

Britain and America won the last world war. We will win the next world war.

In Britain and Europe, no event is less forgotten than World War I, or 'The Great War,' as it was called until 1939.

It is so important that British children are taught about the World Wars that their great grandparents fought in and lived through. It was a terrifying time.