Wsickler

“The integers of death.”
― Robert Harris, V2: A Novel of World War II

“The poor performance of the huge Soviet army against the tiny Finnish army had been a big embarrassment to the Soviet Union: about eight Soviet soldiers killed for every Finn killed. The longer a war with Finland went on, the higher was the risk of British and French intervention, which would drag the Soviet Union into war with those countries and invite a British/French attack on Soviet oil fields in the Caucasus.”
― Jared Diamond, Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis

“Walsall is famous for its leather industry; I once went on a school trip to a leather factory and saw how they made the leather chains, whips, and studs. I clearly took it to heart, as I’m still wearing them sixty years later.”
― Rob Halford, Confess: The Autobiography

“Up sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough.” There”
― Nancy Isenberg, White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America