Jeff Shaara Quotes

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

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

The estimated loss of up to six million dead is founded too much on both emotional, biased testimonies and on exaggerated data in the postwar reckonings of war crimes and on the squaring of accounts with the defeated.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

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

The communists are our allies in this war. That's the Nazis we are fighting. Go look at them.

The Second World War simplified things like race, and people came down on very clear lines.

I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

I am not saying that during the Second World War Germany did not, under the leadership of the National Socialist government, commit crimes.

To those who are incapable of presenting the historic truth in an honest way, I want to say that Poland was not a perpetrator but a victim of World War Two.

I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.

After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

Everybody has forgotten that Russia helped start the Second World War.

I have left too many white crosses across north Africa, Italy, and France, and I’ve seen too many young men wounded and maimed not to be in complete sympathy with any policy that designs to eradicate, root and branch, the evil force, Nazism, that loose this holocaust on the world.

I studied history at university, so I'm always quite fascinated by the Second World War and France. That's one of my interests.

Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.

In the event of a victory over Germany by Soviet Russia and England, Bolshevism in Europe would inevitably follow. Under these circumstances I would prefer to see Germany win the war.

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

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.

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.

Man, it seemed, had been created to jab the life out of Germans.

I'm old enough to remember the end of World War II. On Aug. 14, 1946, a year after the Japanese were defeated, most newspapers and magazines had single articles commemorating the end of the war.

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. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.

When you write a two thousand page history of the Second World War, the deportations and the concentration camps will take up five pages, and the gas chambers perhaps 20 lines.