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History - I sincerely recommend the following literature:
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Beevor, Antony, Berlin - The Downfall 1945 &
Stalingrad
- Breitman, Richard,
What the Nazis planned, What the British and US knew
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Knopp, Guido, Hitler's Henchmen
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Ponting, Clive, 13 Days - the Countdown to the Great War (WWI)
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Ryan, Cornelius, The Last Battle (Berlin) &
The Longest Day
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Salisbury, Harrison, The 900 Days: The Siege of Leningrad
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Sampson, Anthony,
The Seven Sisters (history of oil companies)
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Shirer, William L.,
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
- Warren Tute, John Costello, Terry Hughes, D-Day
Documentaries
informative and well-produced. It covers most aspects of WWII from many points of view.
Quotes I like
- "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."-
George Santayana, The Life of Reason
- "When bad men combine, the good must associate."-
Edmund Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents
- "When you lose, don't lose the lesson." -
H. Jackson Brown, Life's Little Instruction Book
- "Choose your battles." -unknown origin
- "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." -
Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1st Inaugural Address 1933
- "If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil." -
Winston Churchill, June 1941
Interesting people