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My daddy was a World War I pilot, and I just wanted to be able to fly like he did.

Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.

That sense of what happened in Europe in World War II has shaped a lot of my views.

My mother had a son from previous marriage and her husband died in Second World War.

When I was a kid, my dad went to World War II. I didn't know him. I was born in '41.

I didn't realise the depth of horror that happened in the Second World War every day.

The adverse economic events following the First World War turned me toward economics.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

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

I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.

We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.

My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.

The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

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

We owe our World War II veterans - and all our veterans - a debt we can never fully repay.

People who, like me, grew up in the 1950s and 1960s after World War II, grew up with cars.

And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen.

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

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

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

There's not going to be a World War III, because there is no one to have World War III with.

The Holocaust is as real a historical event as World War II itself and not to be challenged.

World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical.

I'm glad to see a lot of patriotism in this country - I haven't seen that since World War II.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.

I'm into zombie movies like 'World War Z' and the shows 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Walking Dead.'

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

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

After World War II society had to settle back for a moment before it picked up the 20th century.

My father had been a Wehrmacht officer in the second world war and was a violent and damaged man.

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people.

It's kind of a terrible irony, in a way, that the solution to America's problems was World War II.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

Anyone who experienced World War I close-hand was grossed out by it forever. It just was so awful.

I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

World War II, the atomic bomb, the Cold War, made it hard for Americans to continue their optimism.

This unprecedented crisis, which is without doubt the worst since the second world war, is not over.

I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.'

I'd lived through World War II and hadn't been able to wait to join the army as soon as I turned 18.

After World War II, the winds of nationalism and anti-colonialism blew through the developing world.

She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.

My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.

There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.

The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.

My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.

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