Allies Quote by Peter Hilton

If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.

— Mahatma Gandhi

It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were…

— Michael Apted

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc…

— Osbert Sitwell

“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a…

— Ladislas Farago

...the discovery, that at no time did this man (Hitler) pose or intend a real threat to Britain or the Empire.

— David Irving

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic…

— James Franck

Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“In the November 1940 week of nightmares, when mighty German planes bombed London, British bombers retaliated by attacking Berlin, where the Soviet foreign minister,…

— William Stevenson

“The goal of Combined Intelligence Objectives Subcommittee was to investigate all things related to German science. Target types ran the gamut: radar, missiles, aircraft,…

— Annie Jacobsen

“In fact, it took the resources of three countries to produce the bomb: the United States, Great Britain, and Canada. But there was more…

— Gregory Benford

“Britain wouldn’t have won the war without its eccentric geniuses.”

— Sara Sheridan

The British bombed German cities [during World War II] to keep the workers awake at night. So instead of dropping one bomb, we sent…

— George Friedman