343 Quotes About Wwii

I had no real communication with anyone at the time, so I was totally dependent on God. And he never failed me.

We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty, and to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.

Wonderful?" wrote J.O. Young in his diary. "To stand cheering, crying, waving your hat and acting like a damn fool in general. No one who has spent all but 16 days of the this war as a Nip prisoner can really know what it means to see 'Old Sammy' buzzing around over camp.

[К]огда сегодня ставится вопрос о цене победы, он правомерен. Не надо только полагать, как многие почему-то полагают, что это обесценивание войны. Это рядовой может рассуждать — нам нужна одна победа, мы за ценой не постоим. А генерал (и чем выше генерал, тем в большей степени) так рассуждать не имеет права. Потому что он жертвует не своими жизнями.

Christine did not live, or love, as most people do. She lived boundlessly, as generous as she could be cruel, prepared to give her life at any moment for a worthy cause, but rarely sparing a thought for the many casualties that fell in her wake.

(Thinking while being interrogated by the Germans) You big shots think you can decide on my life, but I have news for you: you can't touch a hair on my head without the will of God my Father, because He is on my side.

Food in wartime Britain, she had to admit, was hardly inspiring.

What does it matter if I’m afraid? Paris is waiting for her freedom, and she’ll need all the help she can get to find it. Fear doesn’t get to go down with us. Not tonight.

At this period, too, Leningraders resorted to their most desperate food substitutes, scraping dried glue from the underside of wallpaper and boiling up shoes and belts. (Tannery processes had changed, they discovered, since the days of Amundsen and Nansen, and the leather remained tough and inedible.)