The most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war.
That I ventured as far as my position would allow and by historical analogy warned men as solemnly as possible against half-educated leaders being permitted to lead nations into war.
Following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What
A subtly constructed reflex machine which can mimic the human personality perfectly... So perfect is his reproduction of a whole and normal man that no one who examines him in a clinical setting can p...
With the onset of winter Burnham ordered all hydrants packed in horse manure to prevent freezing. On the coldest days the manure steamed, as if the hydrants themselves were on fire.
Where Room 40 promised to give Britain the clearest advantage was in the battle for control of the seas, and there Britain’s strategy had undergone a change.
We were still looking upon war in the light of Victorian and previous wars, Morton wrote later, adding that he and his brother had failed to appreciate that the nature and method of war had changed fo...
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
There would be miracles at the fair—the chocolate Venus de Milo would not melt, the 22,000-pound cheese in the Wisconsin Pavilion would not mold—
There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered.
The war began with the geopolitical equivalent of a brush fire.
The essence of war is violence, he wrote, and moderation in war is imbecility.
The absence of any protective measures may simply have been the result of a lapse of attention, with Churchill off in France and Fisher consumed by other matters and seemingly drifting toward madness....
THE ADMIRALTY’S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable.
She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years earlier. He called her Motsie and pledged himself to her in letters composed of stupend...
Seagulls dove among corpses and survivors alike. Turner later told his son, Norman, that he found himself fending off attacks by the birds, which swooped from the sky and pecked at the eyes of floatin...
People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view.
Only holders of a cipher key could divine the underlying text, but possessing the codebooks made the whole process of solving the messages far simpler. To exploit these treasures the Admiralty establi...
One study of Nazi records found that of a sample of 213 denunciations, 37 percent arose not from heartfelt political belief but from private conflicts, with the trigger often breathtakingly trivial. I...
One night, during a storm, an engineer named W. W. Bradfield was sitting at the Wimereux transmitter, when suddenly the door to the room crashed open. In the portal stood a man disheveled by the storm...