One ... aspect of the case for World War II is that while it was still a shooting affair it taught us survivors a great deal about... daily living which is valuable to us now that it is, ethically at least, a question of cold weapons and hot words.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience. You went o...r you didn't, but the fact of it and the decisions it forced us to make marked us for the rest of our lives, just as the depression and World War II had marked my parents.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better per...suaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We were the daughters of the post-World War II American dream, the daughters of those idealized fifties sitcom families in which f...ather knew best and mother knew her place and a kind of disappointment, and tense, unspoken sexuality rattled around like ice cubes in their nightly cocktails.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... this I conceive to be no time to prate of moral influences. Our men's nerves require their accustomed narcotics and a glass of... whiskey is a powerful friend in a sunstroke, and these poor fellows fall senseless on their heavy drills.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »