In one of his last newsletters, Mike Ranney wrote: In thinking back on the days of Easy Company, I'm treasuring my remark to a grandson who asked, 'Grandpa, were you a hero in the war?'No,' I answered...
Speirs was an officer with a reputation. Slim, fairly tall, dark hair, stern, ruggedly handsome, he cultivated the look of a leader, and acted it.
In the morning, fog. As it slowly lifted, the expedition set off.
Each man in his own way had gone through what Richard Winters experienced: a realization that doing his best was a better way of getting through the Army than hanging around with the sad excuses for s...
Thus the total armada amounted to 5,333 ships and craft of all types,
Messina,
No wrong will ever be done you by our nation.3
In the excitement of a charge, or in the enthusiasm of approaching victory, there is a sense of pleasure which no one should attempt to underrate. General Horace Porter, aide-decamp to General Grant C...
Ethnic Germans also surrendered. Even veterans of the Eastern Front. Corp. Friedrich Bertenrath of the 2nd Panzer Division explained, In Russia, I could imagine nothing but fighting to the last man. W...
Daddy, were you a hero? And he answered, No, but I served with heroes.
Aleutian Islands.
The looting was profitable, fun, low-risk, and completely in accord with the practice of every conquering army since Alexander the Great’s time.
Comrades are closer than friends, closer than brothers. Their relationship is different from that of lovers.
F-word. It substituted for adjectives, nouns, and verbs. It was used, for example, to describe the cooks: those f——ers, or f——ing cooks; what they did: f——ed it up again; and what they produced. David...
By the standards of today’s canoeists, this was a Class V rapid, meaning it could not be run even in a modern canoe specially designed for whitewater. The natives, expert canoeists themselves, did not...
Both Custer and Crazy Horse, in short, still had much to learn about each other.
Vyacheslav Molotov
There is not a day that has passed since that I do not thank Adolf Hitler for allowing me to be associated with the most talented and inspiring group of men that I have ever known. Every member of Eas...
But it was all a pipe dream. As well try to stop an avalanche as to stop the moving frontier. American immigrants and emigrants wanted their share of land—free land—a farm in the family—the dream of E...
British and Free French in the Mediterranean were fighting to retain their colonial empires. Roosevelt said he hoped to