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“Timing was something I had learned about as well. Early on in the fighting, we were moving on a German machine gun nest and…

— Michael Bilder

“The two CIA men had donned flak jackets and unslung their own rifles, accurized AK-74s. The sight of the Eastern Bloc weapons had raised…

— Stephen England

“After a while, they start landing some relief in helicopters, and I guess the napalm bomb have frightened away the gooks. They must of…

— Winston Groom

“Sorry for the delay," Vogel said. "I was required to make a bomb.”

— Andy Weir

“Ten years ago I saw a documentary on the siege of that Moscow theater. After just forty-eight hours of the terrorists confining the hostages…

— Maria Semple

“When Gonzalez and Canley were close enough to the machine gun they called for suppressing fire and then stood and hurled grenades. At the…

— Mark Bowden

“Don’t call these the “wonders of Soviet heroism" when you write about it. Those wonders really did exist. But first there had to be…

— Svetlana Alexievich

“The US military had this huge generator they needed to get to an airfield site they were planning in the south. This was a…

— Matt Potter

“Within minutes we had left the station and were entering a cutting with trees on both sides, so the horror of the massacre was…

— Alfred Nestor

“They were holding their weapons but could not risk opening a window or exiting the vehicle to return fire. Then they saw one of…

— Jeffrey S. Stephens

“The two of them inspected a street barricade being built by the city’s would-be defenders and decided that it would take the approaching Soviet…

— Frederick Taylor

Surely the right course is to test the Russians, not the bombs.

— Hugh Gaitskell