Michael Korda Quotes

Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.

The Second World War took place not so much because no one won the First, but because the Versailles Treaty did not acknowledge this truth.

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.

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.

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

GREAT WAR ENDS CHRISTMAS DAY. FORD TO STOP IT.

The First World War may have been a uniquely horrific war, but it was also plainly a just war.

Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event, as if it had only just ended.

My parents were of the generation that lived through the Second World War, but I grew up listening to my mother recounting her dad's tales about his terrible experiences during the Gallipoli campaign in 1915 and later on the Western Front.

We've talked and written about the World War so much that it has almost been purged off. The bitterness is gone. The drama came to an end and it is history.

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

The War That Will End War.

Reason died in 1914, November 1914 ... after that everybody began to rave.

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

I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

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.

Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave their lives, who made the supreme sacrifice and who today, beneath the soil of France and Belgium, sleep the eternal sleep?

The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.'

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

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

I got married and I had children because of the Second World War, as all of us did, exclaiming, 'Oh, no, we are never going to bring a child into this wicked world,' but we had children by the dozen and got married.

My father was in the First World War.

When the armistice was declared American forces had fought their way to Sedan.

The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.