War History Quotes

“There is a quality in the people of Dover that may well be the key to the coming German disaster. They are incorrigibly, incorruptibly unimpressed. The German, with his uniform and his pageantry and his threats and plans, does not impress these people at all. The Dover man has taken perhaps a little more pounding than most, not in great blitzes, but in every-day bombing and shelling, and still he is not impressed. Jerry is like the weather to him. He complains about it and then promptly goes on with what he was doing...Weather and Jerry are alike in that they are inconvenient and sometimes make messes. Surveying a building wrecked by a big shell, he says, "Jerry was bad last night," as he would discuss a windstorm.”
― John Steinbeck, Once There Was a War

“It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States in the policeman of the world.”
― Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History

“It was this war and not World War II which established a far-flung American base structure abroad and a national security state at home, as defence spending nearly quadrupled in the last six months of 1950, and turned the United States into the policeman of the world.”
― Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History

“Those who suffer terrible wars have a finer sense of when they begin and when they end.”
― Bruce Cumings, The Korean War: A History

“- Egy háborúban mindkét fél saját magának ad igazat, fiam. A történelem majd megmutatja kinek volt igaza.”
― Nermin Bezmen, Kurt Seyt & Shura

“In Africa only the strong survive”
― Andrew Balaam, Skuzapo: The untold story