Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World … - Tony Judt

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We are always dying, all the time. That's what living is; living is dying, little by little. It is a sequenced collection of individualized deaths.

Tony Judt

Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than the Russians lost in soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad alone. It's important to convey to countries and to people and to generations who have no experience of the 20th century as it was lived in Europe just how catastrophic it was.

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