"There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. Thats almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal."

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Source : "Rick Atkinson talks 'The Guns at Last Light'". Interview with John Barron, www.chicagotribune.com. May 10, 2013.

Rick Atkinson

#War Quotes #June Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“War, if reason prevails, is waged to obtain a better peace than that which existed prior to the hostilities.”
“I stick to my own type when I go out, and I don't make friends with people just because they're celebrities.”
“An outsider can see some things much better.”

Source : "Question time". Interview with Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. February 18, 2009.
“I am the type that cannot stay put in living in the past and solely in the past. It's not healthy and it doesn't feel right.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.”
“Officers don't run, only corporals do that”
“Vicksburg is the nail head that holds the Southâ€™s two halves together.”
“I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction.”

Source : Georges Bataille (1984). “Violent silence: celebrating Georges Bataille”

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