Thomas Johnson

“The economic war was lost for Germany as soon as the first shot was fired in August 1914.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

“Fields & Carmine closed the office for the rest of the week and on Sunday we all cried at his funeral. Then on Monday we all went back to work and settled back into a new routine, a routine where one of our coworkers was dead, and that was the end of James Cronin.”
― Sara Gran, Come Closer

“In 1875, civil marriages were introduced as the only legal form. A couple could still get married in a church but only after they had had a state ceremony to make the marriage official in law. This shows very clearly that the Kulturkampf was not a mere measure to restrict Catholic political activity, but it was indeed a battle over spiritual and moral authority in Germany.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

“The man whose future empire would be intertwined with the twentieth-century multinational corporation began by studying the records of the conquistadors.”
― Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost