"Three-hundred times as many people died in Hamburg……" — Martin Caidin

More Blitz Quotes

This quote is filed under Blitz Quotes, one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
• Never before and never since have I seen - and I cannot even imagine, such an amazing rapidity of chess… — Alexander Alekhine
• In blitz, the Knight is stronger than the Bishop — Vlastimil Hort
• I think if you go from show to show without doing that big PR blitz its helpful because people can… — Jane Curtin
• You end up with this succession of periods when everything was marvellous - from King Arthur to the medieval times,… — Ian Hislop
• Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929. — Mikhail Botvinnik
• No Blitz, that's oversimplifying it! — Herman Cain
• Like dogs who sniff each other when meeting, chess players have a ritual at first acquaintance: they sit down to… — Anatoly Karpov
• He who analyses blitz is stupid. — Unknown Author
• It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I… — Viswanathan Anand
• Blitz chess kills your ideas. — Bobby Fischer
• Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By… — Simon Heffer

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