British Quote by Ben Macintyre

“If only I could dine with Stalin once a week, there would be no trouble at all,”10 Churchill told Field Marshal Montgomery during a…

— Cita Stelzer

“When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want…

— Andrei Cherny

Eisenhower had run the Army; he knew all the ways decision making can go off the rails, and insisted on collective debate precisely to…

— Nancy Gibbs

“Eisenhower’s tragedy was that he permitted himself to be pushed into what turned out to be a trap. He had succumbed to General George…

— Ladislas Farago

There has never been a military operation remotely approaching the scale and the complexity of D-Day. It involved 176,000 troops, more than 12,000 airplanes,…

— Tom Brokaw

“President Eisenhower was fed up with the interservice rivalries. Having commanded the Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe during World War II, he…

— Annie Jacobsen

In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.

— Tom Brokaw

I don't even know in American educational history classes how much of D-Day, World War II, all of that is taught versus how much…

— Rush Limbaugh

“What if the Cairo Conference of 1921 went ahead as planned, with Churchill and T.E. Lawrence and Gertrude Bell dividing up the Middle East…

— Lavie Tidhar

“Think of George Washington, putting everything he had into the American Revolution, and then saying, “The event is in the hand of God.” Or…

— Ryan Holiday

“We have more generals today than we did at the end of World War II, and more troops in Germany than during our occupation…

— Andrew Heaton

It's true, we tend to write about the same thing over and over again because this is our trauma. If I had been in…

— Anne Roiphe