A. Scott Berg’s more recent Wilson; John Keegan’s wrenching The First World War; Martin Gilbert’s The First World War; Gerhard Ritter’s The Schlieffen Plan; Lowell Thomas’s 1928 book about World War I...
Had become friends and met often
When the conversation turned to Germany’s persecution of Jews, Colonel House urged Dodd to do all he could to ameliorate Jewish sufferings but added a caveat: the Jews should not be allowed to dominat...
We must keep in mind, I believe, that when Hitler says anything he for the moment convinces himself that it is true. He is basically sincere; but he is at the same time a fanatic.
THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.
Room 40 had long followed Kptlt. Walther Schwieger’s U-20 and kept a running record of his patrols: when he left, which route he took, where he was headed, and what he was supposed to do once he got t...
Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and...
Oh, so many things swarmed in my thoughts, she wrote; and yet each time I was with him I felt the charm of his presence.
Mrs. Arthur Luck of Worcester, Massachusetts, traveling with her two sons, Kenneth Luck and Elbridge Luck, ages eight and nine, to rejoin her husband, a mining engineer who awaited them in England. Wh...
Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day.
It was conceived out of hubris and anxiety, at a time—1903—when Britain feared it was losing the race for dominance of the passenger-ship industry.
In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself in a dark wood where the straight way was lost. —DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy: Canto I
In the end, Dodd proved to be exactly what Roosevelt had wanted, a lone beacon of American freedom and hope in a land of gathering darkness.
In his memoir-like history The World Crisis, 1916–1918, he said of Wilson, What he did in April, 1917, could have been done in May, 1915. And if done then what abridgment of the slaughter; what sparin...
If you cannot give me all that I want—what my heart finds it hard now to breathe without—it is because I am not worthy. I know instinctively you could give it if I were—and if you understood,—understo...
I will be on the look out for you, my dear girl, he wrote. You must expect to give yourself up when you come. For this buttoned-up age, for Burnham, it was a letter that could have steamed itself open...
I think my thought and imagination contain the picture and perceive its significance from every point of view. I have to force myself not to dwell upon it to avoid the sort of numbness that comes from...
I FIRST STARTED READING about the Lusitania on a whim, following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously.
He sensed a rising hysteria among midlevel leaders of the Nazi Party, expressed as a belief that the only safety lies in getting everybody in jail.
Had we been called upon by the Staff to do so, Hope wrote, referring to Oliver, we could have furnished valuable information as to movements of submarines, minefields, minesweeping etc. But the Staff...