Howard Blum > Quotes

“For at the beginning of the twentieth century, the nation had been struggling to find its way. Terror had raged, a second civil war had threatened to split the nation into new feuding armies, and the inequities of industrial life had brutalized too many lives. Three men who were caught up in those traumatic times, shaped by them, found with their talents, energy, and ideals a way out of it, both for themselves and for the nation. Darrow, Billy, D.W. were all flawed - egotists, temperamental, and too often morally complacent. But as their careers and lives intersected in Los Angeles at the tail end of the first decade of the twentieth century, each in his own way helped to move America into the modern world. They were individuals willing to fight for their beliefs; and the legacy of their battles, their cultural and political brawls, remains part of our national consciousness.”
― Howard Blum, American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century

“They waited as, Chaim Weizmann forlornly observed, “The world was divided into two parts. One where Jews cannot live. And another where they cannot go.”
― Howard Blum, The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II

“The moments that follow any approach are always pregnant, a tense time when things might veer off in any direction.”
― Howard Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer’s Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal – A True-Life Thriller of Mystery, Mole Hunting, and Vindication

“On the plains and prairies either you learn to shrug off the unpredictability of life or else its dangers become too overwhelming.”
― Howard Blum, The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier and the Yukon Gold Rush

“ministero,”
― Howard Blum, The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure, and Betrayal – A Riveting Biography of Betty Pack: The American Spy Whose Secrets Changed History

“Deutschland Kaput! Kein Reich, Kein Volk, Kein Führer! Die Juden Kommen!” Trucks veered out of line to smash into men bicycling on the other side of the road. At night, soldiers looking for revenge sneaked into villages, assaulting women, burning houses.”
― Howard Blum, The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II

“complicating”
― Howard Blum, Night of the Assassins: The Untold Story of Hitler's Plot to Kill FDR, Churchill, and Stalin – A Suspenseful History of Operation Long Jump and Espionage

“They waited as in Kielce, Poland, where Peltz’s father had run a hospital, returning Jews were hacked with axes in the streets while policemen watched.”
― Howard Blum, The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II

“anarchists were perceptive when they argued that government was evil because it reined in individual liberties.”
― Howard Blum, American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century

“their”
― Howard Blum, In the Enemy's House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies

“Now was the moment for the Jews to turn the tables. To repay not just the Nazis, but all the centuries of persecution. Perhaps the time had finally come for Jewish soldiers to unleash all restraints.”
― Howard Blum, The Brigade: An Epic Story of Vengeance, Salvation & World War II