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The Girl Who Wasn’t Anne Frank
Bill Moyers: You dedicate your book [Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts] to four women. Why? Clive James: Well, it’s a feminist book really. It’s because many of my...
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Who Wants It More?
“The willingness to fight and die, to sacrifice for a cause, has often been vital in changing history. Napoleon Bonaparte remarked that in war the mental is to the physical as 3:1. George Patton...
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The Nazi’s Astonishing Conquest of France
“[T]he French based their operational plan [for repelling a Nazi invasion] on four assumptions… These assumptions were, first, that the Maginot Line was indeed impregnable; second, that the Ardennes...
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What Is Mein Kampf about?
“Mein Kampf is fundamentally a text about nature. About what belongs in nature and what doesn’t belong in nature. It describes nature as a conflict of races; everything else is incidental. The only...
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How the Great War Created the Modern State
“Until August 1914 a sensible, law-abiding Englishman could pass through life and hardly notice the existence of the state, beyond the post office and the policeman. He could live where he liked and...
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Our Next Series of Demands
“In November 1945 Maxim Litvinov, at that time Deputy Foreign Minister of the USSR (who, as his wife told me, had become not merely tactically but even ideologically disenchanted), was asked by the...
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Dick Winters on Staying Disciplined under Pressure
“In an attempt to escape the tension that combat caused, I developed a heavier than usual exercise regimen and I attended church on a regular basis. There were only a few days that I didn’t run two to...
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Squaring off against Japanese Soldiers
“Unleashing unrestricted mayhem against fellow humans was contrary to everything I had been taught by my parents and Sunday school teachers, but I was forced to justify the decision to be a Marine and...
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They Were Men
“Every American boy should be made to play football and box and participate in all kinds of athletics, and above all the American should be taught discipline and decent living. Then he should be given...
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They Weren’t Warriors
“They weren’t warriors. They were American boys who by mere chance of fate had wound up with guns in their hands, sneaking up a death-laden street in a strange and shattered city in a faraway country...
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