High time they put the RAF in kilts.
Elizabeth WeinTag: world-war-ii
The battle of Iwo Jima would quickly turn into a primitive contest of gladiators: Japanese gladiators fighting from caves and tunnels like the catacombs of the Colosseum, and American gladiators aboveground, exposed on all sides, using liquid gasoline to burn their opponents out of their lethal hiding places.
All of this on an island five and a half miles long and two miles wide. An area smaller than Doc Bradley's hometown of Antigo, but bearing ten times the humanity. A car driving sixty miles an hour could cover its length in five and a half minutes. For the slogging, dying Marines, it would take more than a month.
Tag: history world-war-ii
I just can’t comprehend, that you, Borge, of all people, couldn’t keep your mouth shut.
Steen LangstrupTag: world-war-ii crime-fiction scandinavian-mysteries
This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will come again, even if you yourself don't live to see it.
Nancy KricorianTag: world-war-ii
No realistic American can expect from a dictator's peace international generosity, or return of true independence, or world disarmament, or freedom of expression, or freedom of religion, or even good business. Such a peace would bring no security for us or for our neighbors. Those, who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety
Franklin D. RooseveltTag: world-war-ii garrison-state
Look at me!’ I screeched. ‘Look at me, Amadeus von Linden, you sadistic hypocrite, and watch this time! You’re not questioning me now, this isn’t your work, I’m not an enemy agent spewing wireless code! I’m just a minging Scots slag screaming insults at your daughter! So enjoy yourself and watch! Think of Isolde! Think of Isolde and watch!
Elizabeth WeinTag: war world-war-ii fighting torture enemy fury
The Royal Navy had not built its magnificent reputation over the centuries by avoiding battle.
Arthur NicholsonTag: world-war-ii british-history naval
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open debate in Germany after 1945, no doubt mainly because a nation which had murdered and worked to death millions of people in its camps could hardly call on the victorious powers to explain the military and political logic that dictated the destruction of the German cities.
W.G. SebaldTag: world-war-ii germany atrocities bombing devastation on-behalf-of-german-civilians
Never fear your enemy but always respect them
John BasiloneTag: world-war-ii
The descent to barbarism had begun with Rotterdam. It ended with Dresden and then with Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whatever moral differences had existed when the war began were erased by its end. The victors had been morally conquered by the enemy.
David McReynoldsTag: morality world-war-ii war-and-peace
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