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“The course of the Rhine below Mainz becomes much more picturesque. The river descends rapidly and winds between hills, not high, but steep, and…

— Mary Shelley

“The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! . .…

— Ford Madox Ford

“As they crossed the fifty yards which separated the two checkpoints, Leamas was dimly aware of the new fortifications on the Eastern side of…

— John le Carré

“Halt glanced down at the approaching Wargals. They were in one line, forging their way up the hill. They were clumsy and unbalanced in…

— John Flanagan

“The German settlers would defend Europe itself at the Ural Mountains, against the Asiatic barbarism that would be forced back to the east. Strife…

— Timothy Snyder

“Though he didn’t yet know it, Lee was about to be thrust into an unlikely battle involving the alpine castle whose icon was obscured…

— Stephen Harding

“Towards the end of the Second World War, when I was sixteen years old, I was taken out of school and forced into the…

— Johann Baptist Metz

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid…

— Bayard Taylor

“As proof that HOW we see things matters, Gen. Montgomery took a preprepared text that had been deemed an innocuous complement to his American…

— Jean Edward Smith

“So many engineers were seized that factories came to a halt; so many railway men died that some trains did not run; so many…

— Adam Hochschild

“The end of the war was like the beginning, with the army marching down the open road under the spring sky, seeing a far…

— Bruce Catton

“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which he knew…

— Jonathan Safran Foer