The horrors of the Second World War, the chilling winds of the Cold War and the crushing weight of the Iron Curtain are little more than fading... →
Jan Peter Balkenende
The generation which lived through the Second World War is disappearing. Post-war generations see Europe's great achievements - liberty, peace... →
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with its threat of nuclear war.... →
J. G. Ballard
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught... →
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent. But the cotton works were my... →
No one in a novel by Virginia Woolf ever filled up the petrol tank of her car. No one in Hemingway's postwar novels ever worried about the... →
Saddam Hussein was a horrible man, and I am pleased he is no longer running Iraq. But the war was wrong.
Ed Balls
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from international... →
I'm not sure Americans are hesitant to do this again - to fight another war, because it looked to them like a courageous and terrific endeavor.
Ashleigh Banfield
We didn't see what happened after mortars landed, only the puff of smoke. There were horrors that were completely left out of this war. So was... →