Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain -… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the… — Gavriel David Rosenfeld Copy Share Image
Kennedy was trying to keep us out of war. I was trying to help him keep us out of war. And General… — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
“Pulp devotees did not invent the word fan (derived from the Latin fanaticus , "possessed by divine madness") but they established the… — Steve Silberman Copy Share Image
Then there was the war, and I married it because there was nothing else when I reached the age of falling in… — Guy Sajer Copy Share Image
My great uncle Pvt. Tommy Rooney, USMC, was killed on Guam during the Pacific Campaign in World War II. I was named… — Tom Rooney Copy Share Image
I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried. — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
I don't feel I was "born American," but my homeland was denied to me after the end of World War II and… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
“This isn't to deny that there were fierce arguments, at the time and ever since, about the causes and goals of both… — George Packer Copy Share Image
“The inventor of GDP cautioned against including in its calculation expenditure for the military, advertising, and the financial sector,33 but his advice… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
“While stationed in Fort Jackson, I experienced racial prejudice for the first time and came to the understanding that humans are not… — Omanson, Oliver Copy Share Image
There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Frank Marshall Davis, the former Communist who was Obama’s mentor in Hawaii, was so radical that he opposed President Truman’s Marshall Plan… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
“During the forty-five months of World War II, the United States lost just under 1 percent of its adult male population; during… — Nathaniel Philbrick Copy Share Image
“Corporate interests raised a nearly unified voice heralding automation as a certain and universal beneficial advancement. However, some observers saw the new… — Stephen M. Ward Copy Share Image
I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conventional and perhaps… — Herb Kelleher Copy Share Image
China is ruthlessly pragmatic. It supports North Korea for its own selfish interests. And I believe that China no longer considers us… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
I was born in the middle of World War II, the middle of the Holocaust; I was born when there was no… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Each summer, as Lake Michigan finally begins to warm, I think of the men of the World War II cruiser Indianapolis and… — Doug Stanton Copy Share Image
“The Loyal Order of the Basset Hound had been conceived as a society for the elect among Alabaster students - "elect" meaning… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Eighty years ago on July 2, 1937 Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared while… — Captain Hank Bracker, "Seawater One Copy Share Image
“This world is made of darkness and light, my girl, and in the darkest times you have to believe the sun will… — Nancy Kricorian Copy Share Image
However, there is a fundamental difference between the issue related to Japan's history and our negotiations with China. What is it all… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
