“[W]e are hardened to what we know, and we rationalise and even justify cruelties practised by us and our like while retaining the capacity to be outraged, even disgusted by practices equally cruel which, under the hands of strangers, take a different form.” WarPunishmentCrueltyWarfare Book:A History of Warfare Source: A History of Warfare
“Blitzkrieg was a new and dynamic form of warfare, which applied the power of the tank, the aircraft, and the radio to devastating effect.” WarWarfareNaziHitlerAxisBlitzkrieg Author:John Keegan
“The Second World War is the largest single event in human history, fought across six of the world's seven continents and all it oceans. It killed 50 million human beings, left hundreds of millions of others wounded in mind or body and materially devastated much of the heartland of civilization.” WorldMindHumansHeartWarBodyLeftHuman BeingsMillionsEventsCivilizationOceanSixSevenWar Of The WorldsWorld War IContinentsWoundedHuman HistorySecond World WarDevastated Author:John Keegan
“The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.” WorldWarStatesExistenceStruggleWrittenIndependenceWarfareStrifeConquestWorld HistoryWritten History Book:A History of Warfare Source: A History of Warfare
