Mitchell Zuckoff Quotes

We've built the largest empire in the history of the world. It's been done over the last 50 years since World War II with very little military might, actually. It's only in rare instances like Iraq where the military comes in as a last resort.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.

I love general history. That's all I read really. I don't read novels, I read history. I love it. I live in an area that's really rich in Civil War history. I live in Kentucky on a farm. A lot of revolution, a lot of military history I love.

I don't go to war for the adrenaline rush. I cover wars because that's what I've ended up doing.

History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.

I was a senior high school student at the Far Eastern University when the war with Japan broke out in 1941.

World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole.

The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than just scratch the surface. The story is such that 500 years from now people will be writing and reading about it.

With the World War II era, there's so much written material to draw on. When you go back to the 14th century, you have to imagine more.

In the Second World War, I was a little girl. I was evacuated in my country.

But in 1941, on December 8th, after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, my mother bought a radio and we listened to the war news. We'd not had a radio up to that time. I was born in 1934, so I was seven years of age.

I found out about the Spanish war because I was in Germany when it began.

I was a little girl in World War II and I'm used to being freed by Americans.

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

When I was growing up, everybody in charge, my parents and teachers, had all survived the war, and they talked about the war like it was the Kraken - you know, this huge beast that roamed the earth during their formative years.

Mr. Churchill is proud of Britain's stand alone, after France had fallen and before America entered the War.

I have always lived in Amsterdam. During the war, we inhabited the Rivieren neighborhood where many Jews lived at the time. Our downstairs neighbors were Jews, and there were also Jews a few houses from us. We saw how they were rounded up and taken away. That made a very great impression on me.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Our military thought that they couldn't get to Pearl Harbor, that it was too long a journey from Japan to get there, and they proved us wrong.

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

Pearl Harbor caused our Nation to wholeheartedly commit to winning World War II, changing the course of our Nation's history and the world's future.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.