Any Quote by Antony Beevor

“How many rapes occurred inside the walls of the main camp of Ravensbrück is hard to put a figure to: so many of the…

— Sarah Helm

My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was…

— Dolph Lundgren

“The documentary and anecdotal evidence is overwhelming and indisputable; the Red Army, which had behaved so heroically on the battlefield, raped the women of…

— Andrew Roberts

“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.”

— Alfred Nestor

The executions of agents, partisans, saboteurs, suspicious people, indulging in espionage and sabotage, and those who were of a detrimental effect to the German…

— Paul Blobel

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945…

— Antony Beevor

“The biggest mistake made by German commanders was to have underestimated ‘Ivan’, the ordinary Red Army soldier. They quickly found that surrounded or outnumbered…

— Antony Beevor

“The only thing that disturbed our equanimity during the wonderful days of rest and peace were American and Russian fighter-planes that sometimes came diving…

— Hillblad (ed.), Thorolf

Do not touch anything unnecessarily. Beware of pretty girls in dance halls and parks who may be spies, as well as bicycles, revolvers, uniforms,…

— Garry Wills

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any…

— Zachary Taylor

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

— William Westmoreland

A friend in the War Office warned me that I was in Kitchener's black books, and that orders had been given for my arrest…

— Philip Gibbs