No liberal newspaper ever talked about the invasion of Vietnam; they talked about the defense of Vietnam. And then they were saying,… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is… — Max Hastings Copy Share Image
Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops. — Friedrich Paulus Copy Share Image
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening… — B. H. Liddell Hart Copy Share Image
By seizing the formerly little-known Height 102.0 - the Mamayev Hill - the Red Army fought its way to the fascists' den… — Aleksandr Vasilevsky Copy Share Image
The heavy casualties, the constant retreat, the shortage of food and munitions, the difficulty of receiving reinforcements... all this had a very… — Vasily Chuikov Copy Share Image
Take like, say, Obama, he's called "liberal" and he's praised for his "principled objection to the Iraq war". What was his "principled… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“A good deal of time spent researching this book might well have been wasted and valuable opportunities missed if it had not… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad… — Alexei Sayle Copy Share Image
He [Hitler] seemed very depressed and upset about the Stalingrad disaster. He said that one is always liable to look on the… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Some of the inspirations I had as far as following that story would be, like, say, "The Good, The Bad and The… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
A thousand years hence, every German will speak with awe of Stalingrad and remember that it was there that Germany put the… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
Surrender is forbidden. Sixth Army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
One of these suburbs is actually named Stalingrad, which goes to show that the French have learned nothing about politics since they… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image