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Book cover for The Battle of the Bismarck Sea
Not only did he fail to show up to greet Kenney and his party, but unwisely sent a note via a lowly lieutenant explaining that his absence was due to the fact that he was currently preoccupied sunbathing. General Harmon, expressionless, ...more
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Yuval Noah Harari
“History is something that very few people have been doing while everyone else was ploughing fields and carrying water buckets.”
Yuval Noah Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

“As a measure of the disorganisation that now ruled, a British intelligence officer in Bierden, a village which had been vacated by German troops 24 hours earlier, picked up the telephone to find himself speaking with a German staff officer. The caller wanted to know how close the British were. Replying in German, the intelligence officer assured him that the village was secure. The delighted officer promised an early visit, bringing with him his commanding general. The subsequent ambush bagged not only two senior officers but also a fine Mercedes.”
Barry Turner, Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich

“If the German armies had disintegrated like Napoleon’s Grande Armée in the winter of 1941, and the Third Reich had sued for peace, most of the soldiers and civilians who were to die in the Second World War would have lived.”
Nicholas Stargardt, The German War: A Nation Under Arms, 1939-1945

“Though reporters made much of the challenge of keeping up with Patton, he was never far away from the press. (...) Presiding at a ceremony to open the Roosevelt Railroad Bridge near Mainz, he was invited to cut the ribbon with a large pair of scissors. He gave them back demanding 'a goddamned bayonet' adding he wasn't 'a goddamned tailor' - as if anyone in their wildest imagination supposed he might be.”
Barry Turner, Karl Doenitz and the Last Days of the Third Reich
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Simon Sebag Montefiore
“At Peter’s court, the tournament of power would be still more vicious. The prizes were glittering, the ascent vertiginous, the descent sudden and the end often lethal.”
Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918

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