“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 size and ruthlessness of its Wehrmacht and the abiding belief that Macht ist Recht: might is… — 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
