John Drawbaugh

“This would eventually become the Dolchstosslegende, the ‘stab in the back’ myth, that would help lay the groundwork for the seizure of power by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialists, who vowed to avenge the defeat of 1918 and bury for ever the memory of the ‘November criminals’. The claim that the German Army had not been defeated in 1918 was readily grasped by those who had been raised on the invincibility of Prussian arms”
― Nick Lloyd, The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918

“On Wednesday”
― Erik Larson, The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War

“I prayed the Lord to have mercy on his soul, and then took care of his body.”
― Rick Atkinson, The Fate of the Day: The War for America, Fort Ticonderoga to Charleston, 1777-1780

“How I detach tunnel, question? Me inside ball.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary