“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and… — Nigel Hamilton African proverb Copy Share Image
If the reader doesn't understand what you're saying, you're talking to yourself. — Nigel Hamilton Books Copy Share Image
“Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz… — Nigel Hamilton Artist Copy Share Image
“In his diary Bill Hassett recorded the sight of the venerable little Englishman standing at the top, “at just a sufficient height… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Goebbels’s April announcement of totaler Krieg, in Roosevelt’s view, had merely confirmed his judgment of Germany as the world’s most dangerous nation,… — Nigel Hamilton Goebbels Copy Share Image
“The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill’s excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister’s loyalty to a decaying British… — Nigel Hamilton British empire Copy Share Image
“The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change… — Nigel Hamilton Freedom Copy Share Image
“(Of his first wife, Ekatarina, who had died of tuberculosis in 1907, a year after their marriage, Stalin had reportedly said: “With… — Nigel Hamilton Marriage Copy Share Image
Packed with fascinating personal perspective and testimony, Michael Takiffs A Complicated Man wholly justifies its title. The book is far more than… — Nigel Hamilton Ambitious Copy Share Image
“Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel… — Nigel Hamilton American democracy Copy Share Image
“Ranked seventeenth in the table of world military strengths in 1939, the United States was now primus inter pares, with an all-American… — Nigel Hamilton American military Copy Share Image
“The President had been told, in December 1942, that almost two million Jews had in all probability already been “liquidated” by Hitler’s… — Nigel Hamilton Judaism Copy Share Image
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad… — Nigel Hamilton America Copy Share Image
“More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members… — Nigel Hamilton Israel Copy Share Image
“Secretary Hull was even more skeptical of de Gaulle than the President. He was equally opposed to the restoration of France’s colonial… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
“the combined heavy bombers of the RAF and USAAF attacking from airfields in Britain the northern German city of Hamburg — Operation… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share Image
