“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and carry a big stick.” — Nigel Hamilton 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 a kaleidoscopic… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“(Of his first wife, Ekatarina, who had died of tuberculosis in 1907, a year after their marriage, Stalin had reportedly said: “With her died… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“More troubling still had been the sickening revelation, in April 1943, that more than twenty thousand Polish officers, police officers, and members of the… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“Bearing a banner of American democracy, the United States was, in other words, on the move — producing planes, tanks, and matériel on a… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“Secretary Hull was even more skeptical of de Gaulle than the President. He was equally opposed to the restoration of France’s colonial empire in… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
Sports biography at its best. Rich in period detail, anecdote, and fresh perspective, Strong Boy paints both the good and the bad sides of… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“The House of Savoy never finished a war on the same side it started, unless the war lasted long enough to change sides twice,”… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“It had been Theodore Roosevelt’s dictum — using a supposed West African proverb — that a successful leader should “speak softly and carry a… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“Picasso (full name Pablo Diego Jose Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno Maria de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santisima Trinidad Clito Ruiz y Picasso)” — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“The President had been told, in December 1942, that almost two million Jews had in all probability already been “liquidated” by Hitler’s SS troops.12… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“In his diary Bill Hassett recorded the sight of the venerable little Englishman standing at the top, “at just a sufficient height to accentuate… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“the combined heavy bombers of the RAF and USAAF attacking from airfields in Britain the northern German city of Hamburg — Operation Gomorrah. Employing… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“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, given the… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“Ranked seventeenth in the table of world military strengths in 1939, the United States was now primus inter pares, with an all-American military, economic,… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
“The President certainly did not take amiss Churchill’s excitement over Mediterranean operations, or even the Prime Minister’s loyalty to a decaying British empire. Churchill… — Nigel Hamilton Copy Share
