History Quote by Joseph E. Persico Download Open image ““On weekends his idea of rest was to read military history aloud to his daughters.”” — Joseph E. Persico ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Military history Sleep
“He couldn't go into his army's barracks -- he had long since learned that the best commanders stay away unless they have some reason… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“He wondered what his father had been thinking in those last final moments as he was slipping away, whether the heroism, the honour, the… — Barry Kirwan Copy Share Image
“While I slept that summer, the war came to me in my dreams and showed me its sole purpose: to go on, only to… — Kevin Powers Copy Share Image
“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress… — Alexander Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I needed to talk to my dad. My dad who had been to war, who had seen its horrors, who suffered from its nightmares,… — Tucker Elliot Copy Share Image
“This was his favorite time of day, reading to his heart's content before going to sleep. When he tired of reading, he would fall… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“He said slowly, “You must remember what you are and what you have chosen to become, and the significance of what you are doing.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He wondered what it was like for her to be reading about what happened instead of having lived through it—seeing the war in fading… — Laekan Zea Kemp Copy Share Image
“Some of the soldiers made disparaging comments about the fact that he was a womanform when they thought he couldn’t hear them. But his… — Yoon Ha Lee Copy Share Image
“She had always assumed that her life would end inside the war, that the war itself would be her eternal present, as it was… — Tatjana Soli Copy Share Image
“Sergeant Powell would never understand what compelled Henry Gunther to rise up and charge the enemy. Gunther had never been seduced by dreams of… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Henry Cabot Lodge. Wilson rejected even reasonable compromises, and Lodge refused to budge. Hence, the United States failed to enter… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“On December 18, he asked each side to set forth its terms for ending the war. The Allies demanded conditions certain to be unacceptable:… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“The last deaths of the Great War on the western front occurred at midnight on the twelfth in Hamont, a Belgian town near the… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“German resistance continued to present a hodgepodge of fanaticism amid disorder. A British patrol entering a deserted village east of Valenciennes in the northern… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“The imperative of war is to kill, and thus all wars are exercises in sanctioned murder.” — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“The initial conclusion of the subcommittee was that “needless slaughter” took place on November 11, 1918. However, this finding was beaten back by vocal… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“Moltke began to tamper with Schlieffen’s plan. Instead of investing 90 percent of the German Army in the French campaign, as required, he began… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“Compounding the horror, German officials committed an act of staggering insensitivity: they struck a commemorative medal with a depiction of the sinking ship on… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John Keegan’s The… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
“Mustard gas was stubborn, clinging to the ground as long as three days. Heavier than air, it settled into craters and trenches where men… — Joseph E. Persico Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
