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Winston Churchill had been prime minister for seventy-two hours. He offered Parliament nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat, and asked it to back...
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Winston Churchill had been prime minister for seventy-two hours. He offered Parliament nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat, and asked it to back...
Albert Einstein did not write the letter that started the Manhattan Project. Leo Szilard did. Einstein signed it, because his name was the only...
In the early 1920s Eisenhower served in the Panama Canal Zone under Brigadier General Fox Conner, who told him Europe would be at war...
US Army General George S. Patton: His allies could not agree on him. Americans respected the results and found him impossible to work with....
Between the wars he rebuilt the state. He banned torture, pushed for a uniform national criminal code, loosened control of the press, allowed a...
Patton died in December 1945, months after the war ended, and asked to be buried among his men. He lies at Luxembourg American Cemetery...
"We annually spend on military security more than the net income of all United States corporations," Eisenhower told the country. It is the most...
His grandfather, Colonel George Smith Patton, was killed at Winchester in 1864. Patton grew up on those stories, memorised classical texts by oral repetition...
Before El Guettar he read Rommel's own book, Infantry Attacks. As a young cavalry officer he studied Roman sword technique, concluded the point killed...
Eisenhower did not leave it abstract. One modern heavy bomber, he said, is a brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two...