“Whatever else it was, Adolf Hitler's short-lived regime was also a colossal industrial process by which the wealth and productive power of much of Europe was wrenched from its normal purposes and converted into a machine for killing.” PurposeProcessWealthNormalEuropeMachinesKillingProductiveRegimesColossalShort Lived Author:James Buchan
“Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s. It seems we squeeze more GDP out of a barrel of oil than in those benighted days.” SeemsAmericaEnergyIndustryEuropeHeavyOilDependent1960sBarrelsNorth AmericaGdp Author:James Buchan
“Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka.” WorldWarStruggleViolenceModernCenturyEuropeSuicidePropertyEastRussiaWar Of The WorldsVietnamSuicidalTacticsExclusiveVietnam War19th CenturyBombingSecond World WarMuslim WorldSri Lanka Author:James Buchan
