Success Quote by James Holland

“In the last days before the attack a strange feeling, not so much of confidence as of fatalism, pervaded the German tank forces- if…

— Alan Clark

Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of…

— Anonymous

Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it…

— Angela Merkel

“By the forty-second day from mobilisation, the war in the west would have been won and the victorious German army freed to take the…

— John Keegan

“In one day alone, at the end of December, as a result of frostbite, more than fourteen thousand German soldiers had been forced to…

— Martin Gilbert

“The undeniable tactical skills and successes of the twentieth-century German military often obscure a greater truth: in wars the Germans always met defeat.”

— Geoffrey Jensen

“In equipment, Allied superiority was stifling. In guns it was 2½ to 1, in tanks 20 to 1. The Allies had some 14,000 planes,…

— Ladislas Farago

“The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Ah, I see your point. I did assist on the Okinawa drop, as the British representative. Quite simple, after we’d seen the Berlin effects.…

— Gregory Benford

“The statistics are unequivocal: up until the end of 1944, on a man-for-man basis, the Germans inflicted between 20 and 50 per cent higher…

— Andrew Roberts

“Berlin, April 22, 1945. That afternoon, with the Soviet front lines just a few miles away, the Führer held a final conference with his…

— Alex Kershaw

“A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes…

— Anonymous