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“During the Second World War, the Germans took four years to build the Atlantic Wall. On four beaches it held up the Allies for about an hour; at Omaha it held up the U.S. for less than one day. The Atlantic Wall must therefore be regarded as one of the greatest blunders in military history.”

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Author:Stephen Ambrose

“Painters, especially American painters since the Second World War, have been much more troubled, beset by formal perplexity, than American writers. Theyve been a laboratory for everybody.”

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Author:Donald Barthelme

“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.”

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Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“When the Second World War broke out, I felt that everyone must do his share, and I began composing songs and marches for the front. But soon events assumed such gigantic and far-reaching scope as to demand larger canvasses.”

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Author:Sergei Prokofiev

“In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.”

“With the persistence of tensions and conflicts in various parts of the world, the international community must never forget what happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a warning and in incentive to develop truly effective and peaceful means of settling tensions and disputes. Fifty years after the Second World War, the leaders of nations cannot become complacent but rather should renew their commitment to disarmament and to the banishment of all nuclear weapons.”

“I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.”

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Author:Craig Ferguson

“What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog?”

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Author:Bernard Levin

“After the Second World War, I returned to California to study composition with Darius Milhaud, who wrote wonderful works like 'Le Boeuf sur le Toit' and 'La Cretion du Monde.' I especially enjoy his work for two pianos, 'Scaramouche.”

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Author:Dave Brubeck

“The dramatic wish of Romanians at the end of the Second World War was to be occupied by the Americans and not by the Russians.”

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Author:Traian Basescu

“My generation had the best years. We missed the Second World War and caught the outburst of rock 'n' roll.”

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Author:Georgie Fame

“Norway was occupied by the Germans in the Second World War, and I've met a lot of people who had to live through that occupation in varying degrees.”

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Author:Christopher Heyerdahl

“I actually collect old First and Second World War memorabilia.”

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Author:Jeremy Irvine

“After the Second World War, people in Japan no longer died for their country, and even that expression was no longer used.”

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Author:Naoto Kan