Building Quote by Stephen Ambrose

“Germany had bombed Britain, and Britain had bombed back, and had gotten pretty good at it. In 1943 they had started a firestorm that…

— Lee Child

The attack on Dresden, which was overflowing with refugees, on February 13th 1945 caused around 250,000 dead.

— Konrad Adenauer

The First World War killed fewer victims than the Second World War, destroyed fewer buildings, and uprooted millions instead of tens of millions -…

— Edmond Taylor

“Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that…

— Ronald Schaffer

The suicide bombings have increased. There's too many of them.

— George W. Bush

“The fact is that the estimate of fatalities, in terms of what was calculable at that time—even before the discovery of nuclear winter—was a…

— Daniel Ellsberg

“When the war was over and the British returned in 1945, there were less than 600,000. A million people dead or gone. Nearly two…

— A.G. Riddle

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

— John Ringo

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

— Tony Judt

“The population explosion is the primary force behind the remaining six groups of critical global events [diminishing land resources, diminishing water resources, the destruction…

— Ron Nielsen

If the 20th century was marked by travel - planes in flight - then the events of 9/11 ushered in the age of the…

— Amitava Kumar