Argument Quote by Nicholson Baker

“In fact, you could make the argument that a historian like Shlomo Aronson does in passing in one of his books, that the bombing campaign united the German nation behind Hitler, and actually contributed to the sustaining of his power.”

Nicholson Baker

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