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I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in…

— Winston Churchill

No one would have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.

— Charles Kettering

Another adverse factor was the way the Russians received continual reinforcements from their back areas, as they fell back. It seemed to us that…

— Gerd von Rundstedt

All the survivors of the war had reached their homes and so put the perils of battle and the sea behind them.

— Homer

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in…

— Kurt Student

We managed to get underway, and I don't know to this day why we didn't get struck or take a torpedo, but we didn't.…

— Barney Ross

The one great element in continuing the success of an offensive is maintaining the momentum. This was lost last fall when shortages caused by…

— George C. Marshall

One of the mistakes the Germans made ... was that they were not brave enough to be afraid.

— Gunter Grass

It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.

— Kliment Voroshilov

If the British Fleet were lost or captured, the Atlantic might be dominated by Germany, a power hostile to our way of life, controlling…

— Wendell Willkie

“Then followed an incredible tactical blunder. With the British expeditionary force helplessly retreating toward the sea, but far behind in the race and about…

— Herman Wouk

It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people was very confident that Cunard and the…

— Erik Larson