“Like the panic stricken populace of 'The War of the Worlds' and countless other 1950s invasion movies, the victims are there to provide the human ground over which monster and expert, threat and defender, disordering and ordering impulses can battle it out. Second-class citizens of the genre, they are narratively indispensable because physically entirely disposable. We are only really involved with them in the momentary tension of their capture or demise.” WorldHumansWarFilmClassCitizensInvolvedBattleHollywoodVictimThreatMonstersImpulseGenreWar Of The WorldsExpertsTensionCapturePanicIndispensableInvasionDefendersMomentaryDemiseDisposableSecond Class Citizens Author:Andrew Tudor
“The Prime Minister wins debate after debate and loses battle after battle. The country is beginning to say that he fights debates like a war and the war like a debate.” WorldWarCountryFightingWinningLosesBattleDebateMinistersWar Of The WorldsPrimePrime MinisterWorld War 2 Book:Aneurin Bevan: Speeches at Westminster, 1929-1944 Source: Aneurin Bevan: Speeches at Westminster, 1929-1944
“Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.” WorldFirstsWarCountryResponsibilityHeroBattleLifetimeWar Of The WorldsWoundedVeteranFirst World WarWar HeroIonsBenedict ArnoldWounded Veterans Author:Thomas Sowell
“I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.” ThinkingWorldFirstsWarAgeReadingBecomingBattleTwentiesHistoricalWar Of The WorldsHistorianFascinatedBecoming MoreFirst World WarReading MoreGallipoli Author:Sylvia Plath
“I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II. After all, where else in the world at this point did you have Americans in uniform who were being bombed by Nazi planes four years before the U.S. entered World War II? Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks - and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well - because they wanted a sympathetic ally in power. So I think it really was the opening act of World War II.” ThinkingWorldWayYearsFirstsWellsWarWantedSidesFourMilitaryAmountBattleAidsOpeningPlanesWar Of The WorldsCivil WarAlliesWorld War IiFour YearsAirplaneWorld War ITroopsUniformsNaziTanksSympatheticFrancoSpanish Civil WarFrancisco Franco Author:Adam Hochschild
“It's very clear that there are greater threats to these ships since, arguably, World War II. There are new technologies that can now reach them and make them harder to defend, such as anti-ship missiles, combined with space based tracking. The bigger issue, though, is who are gaining those capabilities. With what's going on with China and Russia, we are returning to geopolitical state-by-state competition. The Navy has not had to fight a peer for control of the sea since the Battle of Midway 75 years ago.” WorldWarFightingTechnologyBattleCompetitionThreatWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiCapabilityWorld War INavyNew Technology Author:P. W. Singer
“Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably less than the Russians lost in soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad alone. It's important to convey to countries and to people and to generations who have no experience of the 20th century as it was lived in Europe just how catastrophic it was.” PeopleMenWorldImportantWarCountryBattleMen And WomenSoldierWar Of The WorldsWorld War IiWorld War I20th Century Author:Tony Judt
“The battle for the mind of Ronald Reagan was like the trench warfare of World War I: never have so many fought so hard for such barren terrain.” WorldMindWarHardBattleWar Of The WorldsWorld War IWarfareBarrenTrenchesTerrain Author:Peggy Noonan
“During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing his fellow soldiers visit French brothels. To keep the Aryan bloodlines pure,and prevent the spread of venereal disease, he commissioned an inflatable doll that Nazi troops could take into battle. Hitler himself designed the dolls to have blond hair and large breasts. The Allied firebombing of Dresden destroyed the factory before the dolls could ever go into wide distribution.” WorldFirstsWarSeeingHairBattlePureDiseaseMessagesFellowsSoldierSpreadWideDestroyedWar Of The WorldsBreastsFactoriesWorld War ITroopsNaziRunnersDistributionDollsDeliveringTrenchesDisgustedDresdenFirst World WarBrothelsBloodlineFellow Soldiers Author:Chuck Palahniuk