In seven days God had created the Earth. In a single day mankind had turned it upside down.
Kristina McMorrisTag: inspirational god war faith world-war-ii philosophy-religion japanese-fiction
The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.
Kristina McMorrisTag: war loss mourning tragedy world-war-ii drama grief
The line between him and the enemy had simultaneously blurred and solidified. Somehow, while perhaps it shouldn't have, this thought provided a strange sense of peace.
Kristina McMorrisTag: wisdom philosophy peace war world-war-ii japanese-fiction
Brick walls towered over her. Decrepit staircases crowded about her. Nothing had changed. The line there, the lessons there, the rape there. Shouldn't the place be crimson with blood and black with shame?
Sarah SundinTag: romance historical-fiction world-war-ii
Ruth wiped her eyes. Successful at a price? Forgiven but damaged? She wished so much more for her baby sister.
Sarah SundinTag: world-war-ii historical-romance
When I was a schoolboy in England, the old bound volumes of Kipling in the library had gilt swastikas embossed on their covers. The symbol's 'hooks' were left-handed, as opposed to the right-handed ones of the Nazi hakenkreuz, but for a boy growing up after 1945 the shock of encountering the emblem at all was a memorable one. I later learned that in the mid-1930s Kipling had caused this 'signature' to be removed from all his future editions. Having initially sympathized with some of the early European fascist movements, he wanted to express his repudiation of Hitlerism (or 'the Hun,' as he would perhaps have preferred to say), and wanted no part in tainting the ancient Indian rune by association. In its origin it is a Hindu and Jainas symbol for light, and well worth rescuing.
Christopher HitchensTag: school world-war-ii fascism nazis adolf-hitler europe hinduism england symbols rudyard-kipling 1945 1930s fascism-in-europe swastikas
Even in former days, Korea was known as the 'hermit kingdom' for its stubborn resistance to outsiders. And if you wanted to create a totally isolated and hermetic society, northern Korea in the years after the 1953 'armistice' would have been the place to start. It was bounded on two sides by the sea, and to the south by the impregnable and uncrossable DMZ, which divided it from South Korea. Its northern frontier consisted of a long stretch of China and a short stretch of Siberia; in other words its only contiguous neighbors were Mao and Stalin. (The next-nearest neighbor was Japan, historic enemy of the Koreans and the cruel colonial occupier until 1945.) Add to that the fact that almost every work of man had been reduced to shards by the Korean War. Air-force general Curtis LeMay later boasted that 'we burned down every town in North Korea,' and that he grounded his bombers only when there were no more targets to hit anywhere north of the 38th parallel. Pyongyang was an ashen moonscape. It was Year Zero. Kim Il Sung could create a laboratory, with controlled conditions, where he alone would be the engineer of the human soul.
Christopher HitchensTag: world-war-ii japan china korean-war siberia korea south-korea 1953 1945 north-korea joseph-stalin kim-il-sung mao-zedong korean-demilitarized-zone pyongyang curtis-lemay division-of-korea hermit-kingdom korea-under-japanese-rule
No time to spare: the expression assumed its full significance, as so many expressions do in wartime.
Guy SajerTag: war world-war-ii soldier
Only happy people have nightmares, from overeating. For those who live a nightmare reality, sleep is a black hole, lost in time, like death.
Guy SajerTag: reality war death dreams happy world-war-ii nightmares soldier
As I remember his laugh, there was nothing mad about it, it was more like the laugh of someone who has been the victim of a practical joke, a farce in which he had believed until suddenly he realized his folly.
Guy SajerTag: war death world-war-ii soldier
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