Bomb Quote by Robert M. Edsel

“There's one good thing about being in the bomb disposal unit: No superior officer is ever looking over your shoulder.”

— Robert Edsel

“Well let the gentlemen of the bourgeoisie remember Berlin any way they please. As Comrade Khruschev promised us, we will bury them.”

— William T. Vollmann

“Comrades, we are going to try to cheer you up, and our sense of humor will help us in this endeavor, although the phrase…

— Rudolph Herzog

“(In Austria after VE Day) Sergeant Mercier...dressed in a full German officer's uniform, topped off with a monocle for his right eye. Someone got…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“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

“Imagine if one should drag an innocent passer-by from the street to the operating room of a nearby hospital and force him at gunpoint…

— Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”

— Denis Johnson

“Ah … politics, Sergeant. When the top brass hand you a turd, you polish it and say, “my, what a lovely jobbie!” That way…

— Stuart MacBride

“I once conjured up this image of Hitler. I imagined that he didn’t kill himself and that he was kept in a kind of…

— Glenn Haybittle

“The younger officer accompanying Waaler was learning something new every day. This afternoon, for example, he learned it was very stupid to rock on…

— Jo Nesbø

“I told the officer, “If you ever make another report like that, sir, I’ll throw you over the side!”

— William F. Halsey

“So, let us be alert--alert in a twofold sense. Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what…

— Anonymous