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I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a World War I piece.
I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.
It took us 50 months in Germany, post World War II to go from the end of the war to a national election.
Nine g's is good, if the pilot can stand it. We couldn't stand it. Not in the airplanes of World War II.
Richard Kerry not only was a pilot in World War II, but was a civil servant. He did not come from money.
What distinguished the First World War from all wars before it was the massive power of the antagonists.
World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
My mother lived in Holland, and during World War II was incarcerated in a Japanese camp for three years.
If the inner world is inundated with peace, then the nightmare of world war cannot even come into being.
Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thrilling.
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam.
We experienced similar fears in the 1880s, at the end of World War I and II. And we ran out in the 1970s.
I chose a time in the century which had the greatest moments for novels - the late '30s and World War II.
The modern assault on the environment began about 50 years ago, during and immediately after World War II.
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.
My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.
I have an uncle who was heavily involved in World War 2, so over the years, I've talked to him many times.
The first 'world' war was in reality the last European war fought by globally significant European powers.
My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.
The one thing that I'm most proud of, during the Second World War, I worked on airplanes in a defense plant.
Winston Churchill never said that people had let him down when he lost the elections after the World War II.
I always thought those World War II films with German people speaking English with German accents was weird.
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.
For women, World War II had offered an opportunity, and often the necessity, to get out of the house to work.
I had just turned 10-years-old when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and plunged America into World War II.
Serbia will neither allow a revision of history, nor will it forget who are the main culprits in World War I.
My mother was a product of World War II. My grandfather was on leave in Edinburgh when he met my grandmother.
Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders this time?
The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.
Hungary has a moral debt to the Jews that it helped send to death camps thirty years after the First World War.
Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.
You read 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor because you're interested in the Second World War or Russia or whatever.
Military action is, of course, sometimes necessary to maintain peace. Kosovo and World War II are good examples.
The chief fruit of the First World War was the Russian Revolution and the rise of Communism as a national power.
In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.
Without any doubt, the Iranian threat is the biggest threat facing the Jewish people since the Second World War.
I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.
The Second World War is and was constantly being drudged up by Blair and Bush to rationalize the invasion of Iraq.
During the Second World War, evacuated to non-Jewish households, I encountered Christianity at home and in school.
I grew up in an era when money was not readily available. We were into the post-Depression years and World War II.
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.
The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits.
Why are some things remembered and others forgotten? That is the theme I want to pursue about the Second 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.
I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.
I started photographing people on the street during World War II. I used a little box Brownie. Nothing too expensive.