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Erik Larson Quote: “Responsibility has already changed the primary leaders of the Party very considerably,” he wrote. “There is every evidence that they are becoming constantly more moderate.”

451. “Responsibility has already changed the primary leaders of the Party very considerably,” he wrote. “There is every evidence that they are becoming constantly more moderate.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Churchill was in bed, “looking just like a rather nice pig, clad in a silk vest.”

452. “Churchill was in bed, “looking just like a rather nice pig, clad in a silk vest.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He insisted on keeping a Bren light machine gun in the trunk of his car, having vowed on numerous occasions that if the Germans came for him, he would take as many as possible with him to the grave.”

453. “He insisted on keeping a Bren light machine gun in the trunk of his car, having vowed on numerous occasions that if the Germans came for him, he would take as many as possible with him to the grave.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Here, as in other speeches, Churchill demonstrated a striking trait: his knack for making people feel loftier, stronger, and, above all, more courageous.”

454. “Here, as in other speeches, Churchill demonstrated a striking trait: his knack for making people feel loftier, stronger, and, above all, more courageous.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Only holders of a cipher “key” could divine the underlying text, but possessing the codebooks made the whole process of solving the messages far simpler. To exploit these treasures the Admiralty established Room 40.”

455. “Only holders of a cipher “key” could divine the underlying text, but possessing the codebooks made the whole process of solving the messages far simpler. To exploit these treasures the Admiralty established Room 40.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “With that news her life had been abruptly, irrevocably altered. Come.”

456. “With that news her life had been abruptly, irrevocably altered. Come.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.”

457. “He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.”

458. “Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty and so bear ourselves that if the British Commonwealth and Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their finest hour.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “All he asked of life was the best of everything.”

459. “All he asked of life was the best of everything.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “The Fringes of Power; the work.”

460. “The Fringes of Power; the work.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “She loved “their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.”

461. “She loved “their funny stiff dancing, listening to their incomprehensible and guttural tongue, and watching their simple gestures, natural behavior and childlike eagerness for life.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “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.”

462. “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.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “The meeting did succeed, however, in searing into the minds of several French officers a singular image: that of Churchill, angered by the French failure to prepare his afternoon bath, bursting through a set of double doors wearing a red kimono and a white belt, exclaiming, “Uh ay ma bain?” – his French version of the question “Where is my bath?” One witness reported that in his fury he looked like “an angry Japanese genie.”

463. “The meeting did succeed, however, in searing into the minds of several French officers a singular image: that of Churchill, angered by the French failure to prepare his afternoon bath, bursting through a set of double doors wearing a red kimono and a white belt, exclaiming, “Uh ay ma bain?” – his French version of the question “Where is my bath?” One witness reported that in his fury he looked like “an angry Japanese genie.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “One immense German bomb, a thirteen-foot, four-thousand-pounder named Satan, could destroy an entire city block.”

464. “One immense German bomb, a thirteen-foot, four-thousand-pounder named Satan, could destroy an entire city block.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Britain’s civil defense experts, fearing a “knock-out blow,” predicted that the first aerial attack on London would destroy much if not all of the city and kill two hundred thousand civilians. “It was widely believed that London would be reduced to rubble within minutes of war being declared,” wrote one junior official.”

465. “Britain’s civil defense experts, fearing a “knock-out blow,” predicted that the first aerial attack on London would destroy much if not all of the city and kill two hundred thousand civilians. “It was widely believed that London would be reduced to rubble within minutes of war being declared,” wrote one junior official.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.”

466. “He had only to assert the most commonplace thing and it sounded important and convincing.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Unhappily, it depends upon the attitude of a single submarine commander whether America will or will not declare war.”

467. “Unhappily, it depends upon the attitude of a single submarine commander whether America will or will not declare war.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Despite the blackout, theaters were full, there were plenty of nightclubs for late dancing after restaurants closed, and many people still gave dinner parties, often organized round a son on leave.”

468. “Despite the blackout, theaters were full, there were plenty of nightclubs for late dancing after restaurants closed, and many people still gave dinner parties, often organized round a son on leave.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “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.”

469. “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.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He recognized that the systemic malaise that caused it was a consequence in part of his own refusal over the years to limit his courtship of the finest wines, foods, and cigars.”

470. “He recognized that the systemic malaise that caused it was a consequence in part of his own refusal over the years to limit his courtship of the finest wines, foods, and cigars.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.”

471. “He was a loner and intellectually intolerant.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.”

472. “During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Winston had grave concerns, and that she regretted letting the romance progress to this point without expressing their doubts and fears. This was only partly true: In fact, Churchill, preoccupied with war matters, had few concerns about the engagement and was more than content to let Clementine manage the situation. Thus far that weekend, his main interests had.”

473. “Winston had grave concerns, and that she regretted letting the romance progress to this point without expressing their doubts and fears. This was only partly true: In fact, Churchill, preoccupied with war matters, had few concerns about the engagement and was more than content to let Clementine manage the situation. Thus far that weekend, his main interests had.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “In this their lives reflected the broader miasma suffusing the city beyond their garden wall.”

474. “In this their lives reflected the broader miasma suffusing the city beyond their garden wall.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “The becomingness of everything that may be seen as a modestly contributive part of a grand whole.”

475. “The becomingness of everything that may be seen as a modestly contributive part of a grand whole.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “A woman who may report on a neighbor for disloyalty and jeopardize his life, even cause his death, takes her big kindly-looking dog in the Tiergarten for a walk. She talks to him and coddles him as she sits on a bench and he attends to the requirements of nature.”

476. “A woman who may report on a neighbor for disloyalty and jeopardize his life, even cause his death, takes her big kindly-looking dog in the Tiergarten for a walk. She talks to him and coddles him as she sits on a bench and he attends to the requirements of nature.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews into America were likely to be immense, because American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem.”

477. “Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews into America were likely to be immense, because American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “On August 3 a big Chicago bank, Lazarus Silverman, failed.”

478. “On August 3 a big Chicago bank, Lazarus Silverman, failed.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.”

479. “Another raid followed on January 31, during which nine airships flew as far as Liverpool, along the way sending terrifying shadows scudding across the landscape of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.”

480. “The delay you are causing us by not forwarding scale drawings is embarrassing in the extreme.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “No other British city experienced such losses, but throughout the United Kingdom the total of civilian deaths in 1940 and 1941, including those in London, reached 44,652, with another 52,370 injured. Of the dead, 5,626 were children.”

481. “No other British city experienced such losses, but throughout the United Kingdom the total of civilian deaths in 1940 and 1941, including those in London, reached 44,652, with another 52,370 injured. Of the dead, 5,626 were children.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “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.”

482. “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.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening.”

483. “The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs.”

484. “Never before in civilization have such numbers of young girls been suddenly released from the protection of the home and permitted to walk unattended upon the city streets and to work under alien roofs.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Burnham’s frequent admonition: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” Burnham.”

485. “Burnham’s frequent admonition: “Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood.” Burnham.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Clemmie dropped on him like a jaguar out of a tree.”

486. “Clemmie dropped on him like a jaguar out of a tree.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “In honor of the fair Kodak called the folding version of its popular model No. 4 box camera the Columbus. The photographs these new cameras created were fast becoming known as “snap-shots,” a term originally used by English hunters to describe a quick shot with a gun.”

487. “In honor of the fair Kodak called the folding version of its popular model No. 4 box camera the Columbus. The photographs these new cameras created were fast becoming known as “snap-shots,” a term originally used by English hunters to describe a quick shot with a gun.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete – that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly.”

488. “Far from a clamor for war, there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete – that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “I was inclined to think him Jewish,” she wrote; she “considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness.”

489. “I was inclined to think him Jewish,” she wrote; she “considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry.”

490. “All the despair, terror and anguish of hundreds of souls passing into eternity composed that awful cry.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He wrote, “It is so humiliating to me to shake hands with known and confessed murderers.”

491. “He wrote, “It is so humiliating to me to shake hands with known and confessed murderers.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.”

492. “Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds.”

493. “He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “She and a friend joked about what to do if the ship were attacked. “Our stewardess laughed,” Mrs. Lines recalled, “and said we would not go down, but up, as we were well loaded with munitions.”

494. “She and a friend joked about what to do if the ship were attacked. “Our stewardess laughed,” Mrs. Lines recalled, “and said we would not go down, but up, as we were well loaded with munitions.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.”

495. “My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Indeed, anti-immigration sentiment in America would remain strong into 1938, when a Fortune poll reported that some two-thirds of those surveyed favored keeping refugees out of the country.”

496. “Indeed, anti-immigration sentiment in America would remain strong into 1938, when a Fortune poll reported that some two-thirds of those surveyed favored keeping refugees out of the country.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “The two often sheltered from air raids in the room of another resident, Australian prime minister Menzies, whom Pamela had come to know well because of her connection to the Churchills. Menzies occupied a large suite on the Dorchester’s much-coveted first floor. The women spent nights on mattresses laid out in its windowless entry alcove. Now.”

497. “The two often sheltered from air raids in the room of another resident, Australian prime minister Menzies, whom Pamela had come to know well because of her connection to the Churchills. Menzies occupied a large suite on the Dorchester’s much-coveted first floor. The women spent nights on mattresses laid out in its windowless entry alcove. Now.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “I didn’t believe all her stories,” Martha wrote later. “I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical.” When Martha left her hotel she witnessed no violence, saw no one cowering in fear, felt no oppression.”

498. “I didn’t believe all her stories,” Martha wrote later. “I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical.” When Martha left her hotel she witnessed no violence, saw no one cowering in fear, felt no oppression.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “After a few minutes, Churchill broke the silence, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.” The remark had such power that Ismay quoted it to his wife after returning home. He had no idea that Churchill would soon deploy the line in one of his most famous speeches.”

499. “After a few minutes, Churchill broke the silence, saying, “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.” The remark had such power that Ismay quoted it to his wife after returning home. He had no idea that Churchill would soon deploy the line in one of his most famous speeches.”

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Erik Larson Quote: “Depending on one’s point of view, Germany was experiencing a great revival or a savage darkening.”

500. “Depending on one’s point of view, Germany was experiencing a great revival or a savage darkening.”

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