“The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain 2 percent each, France and Poland 1 percent each. About 8 percent of all Germans died, compared with… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Liberated in Germany by the Americans, seven-year-old Valya Brekeleva and her family of slave labourers went home to Novgorod as non-persons. “Most of the people from our village who went to Latvia survived. But most of those who were sent to Germany had died. For those of us who remained, the suspicion was always there.” Most of her family were… — Max Hastings Copy Share
“Here was a manifestation of a huge, historic British folly, repeated over many centuries including the twenty-first: the adoption of gesture strategy, committing small… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“THE EXPERIENCE OF WAR was extraordinarily diverse. The Eastern Front, where 90 percent of all Germans killed in combat met their fate, overwhelmingly dominated the struggle against Hitler. Between 1941 and 1944, British and American sailors and airmen fought at sea and in the sky, but relatively small numbers of Western Allied ground troops engaged the Axis in North Africa,… — Max Hastings Copy Share
It's miraculous how much easier the computer has made my sort of work. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
I'm a wet liberal really, and always have been. But I'm sort of an aggressive wet liberal. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim… — Max Hastings Copy Share
I would be miserable if I went to bed without having written 1,000 words about something. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it. — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“Haw! Haw! Inconceivable stupidity is just what you're going to get! (Brigadier-General Henry Wilson, on being challenged in 1910 about the likelihood of a… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
“We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)” — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
