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“When General George Patton tried to convince Eisenhower to make a push to conquer the city first, Eisenhower blithely asked, 'Well, who would want it?”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Enjoy the war,' read the graffiti left on Berlin's walls. 'The peace will be terrible.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Eventually, a Soviet general sat down in the empty seat next to Howley. Rank-conscious, the Russian visibly shuddered when he realized he was sitting next to someone of much lower position. 'I see you're a colonel,' he said through an interpreter. Howley looked up from his plate and grumbled, 'I see you're a general. Here, have some salami.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“World War II ended in a battle for a single buildng, Germany's Reichstag...7,000 German troops defending the building...Nearly 5,000 men died in a battle for the building.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Ad they entered Berlin, while still killing off the last of its German defenders, The Russians indulged in an orgy of rape and rage beyond the bounds of human Imagination. Over the course of ten days, about 130,000 women were raped---”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The Russians would lose 305,000 troops in the last 42 miles approaching Berlin---about the number of American army soldiers who died in all of World War II. Of the 125,000 of Berlin's civilians who died in the Russian attack, 6,400 were suicides;”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Five thousand boys and girls under the age of sixteen were estimated to have fought in the defense of Berlin. Five hundred survived.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The president didn't ask me any questions. But I'm glad he didn't, because I was so shocked watching him that I don't think I could have made a sesible reply.' He turned to look Byrnes squarely in the eye. 'We've been talking to a dying man.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“The agreement,' the colonel announced, 'says thirty-seven officers, fifty vehicles, and one hundred seventy five men.'
'What agreement?'
'The Berlin Agreement,”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“As the concert goers left the hall, the music of the end of the world still ringing in their ears, they filed out past children dressed in their Hitler Youth uniforms who had been assigned to helpfully hold out baskets filled with cyanide capsules for the crowd.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Doctors in 1945 would report that one of Berlin's children's favorite games was 'rape.' When they saw a man in uniform--even a Salvation Army uniform--they would start screaming hysterically.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Of babies born alive and in hospitals during that month of July 1945, 92 percent would die within then days.”
― quote from The Candy Bombers: The Untold Story of the Berlin Airlift and America's Finest Hour
“Our relationship feels different. Like someone has taken my favorite sweater and thrown it in the dryer and it doesn't fit right anymore. I want to pull and tug on it until it feels comfortable again.”
― Kasie West, quote from Pivot Point
“What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. —LORD PERCEVAL”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, quote from The Signature of All Things
“Les moments de crise produsent un redoublement de vie chez les hommes.
Moments of crisis produce a redoubled vitality in men. Or, more succinctly perhaps: Men don't begin to live fully until thier backs are against the wall.”
― Paul Auster, quote from The Book of Illusions
“Non vi è ferita più profonda o dolorosa di quella inferta da coloro che sostengono di amarti di più.”
― Lisa See, quote from Dreams of Joy
“All this natural misery,” Dr. Goodsir said suddenly. “Why do you men have to add to it? Why does our species always have to take our full measure of God-given misery and terror and mortality and then make it worse? Can you answer me that, Mr. Hickey?”
― Dan Simmons, quote from The Terror
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