Military command Quote by Cita Stelzer

“Returning to Washington,FDR declared that Yalta Conference had put and end to the kind of balance-of-power divisions that had long marred global politics. His…

— Madeleine Albright

There's a myth that Roosevelt gave Stalin Eastern Europe. I was with Roosevelt every day at Yalta.

— W. Averell Harriman

“Eisenhower on Patton: "Fundamentally, he is so avid for recognition as a great commander that he won't with ruthlessly suppress any habit that will…

— Jean Edward Smith

What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British…

— Ben Macintyre

“Patton would have said a warmer goodbye to his horse, The author writes on Eisenhower's cold dismissal of his wartime lover.”

— Jean Edward Smith

“In a phone call one evening the corps commander grew incensed when Ward mentioned his good fortune in losing no officers in combat that…

— Rick Atkinson

“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

“In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister,…

— William Stevenson

“In a dinner toast at one base, Patton declared, “Here’s to the wives. My, what pretty widows you’re going to make.”

— Rick Atkinson

We both agreed that Stalin was determined to hold out against the Germans. He told us he'd never let them get to Moscow. But…

— W. Averell Harriman

“On June 8, 1946, Britain staged an elaborate victory parade, inviting armed forces from more than thirty Allied nations to London in a joyous…

— Lynne Olson

“Patton wrote in his diary on April 15th, the morning after his departure from II Corps: “War is very simple, direct and ruthless. It…

— Ladislas Farago