The Allied leaders of World War II listed below comprise the important political and military figures who fought for or supported the Allies during World War II. Engaged in total war, they had to adapt to new types of modern warfare, on the military, psychological and economic fronts.
Read more about Allied Leaders Of World War II: Albania, Belgium, Brazil, British Empire & Commonwealth, Republic of China, French Third Republic (Until 1940), Kingdom of Greece, Mexico, Second Polish Republic (Until 1939), Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia, United States of America, Kingdom of Yugoslavia, Czechoslovak Republic, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, Kingdom of Denmark, Kingdom of Norway, Kingdom of The Netherlands, Kingdom of Egypt, Empire of Ethiopia, Empire of Iran, Republic of Liberia
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“A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate”
—Christopher Hampton (b. 1946)
“No matter how vast, how total, the failure of man here on earth, the work of man will be resumed elsewhere. War leaders talk of resuming operations on this front and that, but man’s front embraces the whole universe.”
—Henry Miller (1891–1980)
“You are a thousand times a properer man
Than she a woman. ‘Tis such fools as you
That makes the world full of ill-favored children.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“I thought that’s what this war was about. Making people pay taxes when they didn’t have no say so about it.”
—Lamar Trotti (1898–1952)