“Scientists expected that the Super, a fusion or "thermonuclear" weapon, would be an awesomely destructive horror that could unleash the equivalent of… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
You know, Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kronen, and moved to Vienna to… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
World War II was a trauma that paralysed writers. It was something metaphysical, diabolical. — A. B. Yehoshua Copy Share Image
“How could sixty-two million people vote for someone they heard on tape bragging about repeated sexual assault? How could he attack women,… — Hillary Rodham Clinton Copy Share Image
“The single biggest barrier to getting men to look within is that what any other group would call powerlessness, men have been… — Warren Farrell Copy Share Image
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“Indeed, future historians may well attribute our recent successes—toppling the two worst regimes in the Middle East, presiding over the birth of… — Victor Davis Hanson Copy Share Image
The '54 World Cup was the first time the people got the recognition back after the second World War and felt like… — Jurgen Klinsmann Copy Share Image
It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had… — Anne Roiphe Copy Share Image
Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed,… — Harald zur Hausen Copy Share Image
“A voice within me is sobbing, "You see that's what's become of you. You're surrounded by negative opinions, dismayed looks and mocking… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
If the West Point class of 1915 is called 'the class the stars fell on' for the number of World War II… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who is half English and half Hungarian, World War I still seems to me a familiar and seismic event,… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I'm really into very 'naive craft,' like Second World War playing cards. — Jonathan Anderson Copy Share Image
Like many of his fellow skyjackers, 49-year-old Arthur Gates Barkley was motivated by a complicated grievance against the federal government. In 1963,… — Brendan I. Koerner Copy Share Image
The Kurds had always had a bad time. They were oppressed by the Ottoman empire. Then, at the end of the First… — Adam Curtis Copy Share Image
I have said and I repeat, at the risk of being sacrilegious, that the gas chambers are a detail of the history… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
“I read Tom Brokaw’s book The Greatest Generation. This book celebrates the virtues of the generation that grew up between the two… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
“Are you still as angry as you used to be?' Julia, the World War II resistance fighter, asked Lillian Hellman in the… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
When you can identify a specific tax that people don't like, and this is one that was designed for the Rockefellers, for… — Paul Gigot Copy Share Image
“WGHB started as a Clearwater, Florida radio station in 1925. By 1927, its call letters changed to WFLA and it moved to… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“On October 30, 1961, the Soviet Union detonated the largest, most powerful nuclear weapon the world had ever known. Called the Tsar… — Annie Jacobsen Copy Share Image
