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“After September 1939, perhaps one billion of the world’s roughly two billion population were soldiers, partisans, and producers engaged in trying to kill people.”
― Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won

“One way to sum up the new scholarship is to say that it has begun, at last, to fill in one of the biggest blanks in history: the Western Hemisphere before 1492. It was, in the current view, a thriving, stunning diverse place, a tumult of languages, trade, and culture, a regiin where tens of millions of people loved and hated and worshipped as people do everywhere. Much of this world vanished after Columbus, swept away by disease and subjugation. So thorough was the erasure that within a few generations neither conqueror nor conquered knew that this world had existed. Now, though, it is returning to view. It seems incumbent on us to take a look.”
― Charles C. Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus

“She had more memories than she could use, and so had I.”
― Ross Macdonald, The Zebra-Striped Hearse

“a panoply of talents.”
― Hampton Sides, Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of the American West