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Max Hastings Quote: “The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.”

51. “The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “In Japan, no one could dictate effectively to either army or navy. To an extraordinary degree, the two services – each with its own air force – pursued independent war policies, though the soldiers wielded much greater clout. The foremost characteristic of the army general staff, and especially of its dominant operations department, the First Bureau, was absolute indifference to the diplomatic or economic consequences of any military action. Mamoru.”

52. “In Japan, no one could dictate effectively to either army or navy. To an extraordinary degree, the two services – each with its own air force – pursued independent war policies, though the soldiers wielded much greater clout. The foremost characteristic of the army general staff, and especially of its dominant operations department, the First Bureau, was absolute indifference to the diplomatic or economic consequences of any military action. Mamoru.”

— Max Hastings

Max Hastings Quote: “The prime principle of employing force in pursuit of national objectives is to ensure that it is effective.”

53. “The prime principle of employing force in pursuit of national objectives is to ensure that it is effective.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain 2 percent each, France and Poland 1 percent each. About 8 percent of all Germans died, compared with 2 percent of Chinese, 3.44 percent of Dutch people, 6.67 percent of Yugoslavs, 4 percent of Greeks, 1.35 percent of French, 3.78 percent of Japanese, 0.94 percent of British and 0.32 percent of Americans.”

54. “The Soviet Union suffered 65 percent of all Allied military deaths, China 23 percent, Yugoslavia 3 percent, the United States and Britain 2 percent each, France and Poland 1 percent each. About 8 percent of all Germans died, compared with 2 percent of Chinese, 3.44 percent of Dutch people, 6.67 percent of Yugoslavs, 4 percent of Greeks, 1.35 percent of French, 3.78 percent of Japanese, 0.94 percent of British and 0.32 percent of Americans.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.”

55. “Courage is essentially competitive and imitative.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Yet since 1917 the Soviet Union had created an edifice of self-deceit unrivalled in human history.”

56. “Yet since 1917 the Soviet Union had created an edifice of self-deceit unrivalled in human history.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “On 1 November the old OSS man arrived by appointment at army headquarters, wearing uniform and carrying a .357 revolver together with $US40,000 in cash, which he deemed the appropriate fashion accessories for an afternoon’s work overthrowing a government.”

57. “On 1 November the old OSS man arrived by appointment at army headquarters, wearing uniform and carrying a .357 revolver together with $US40,000 in cash, which he deemed the appropriate fashion accessories for an afternoon’s work overthrowing a government.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.”

58. “All politicians find it hard to address with conviction more than one emergency at a time.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.”

59. “There was no doubt that in the early and mid-eighties that many of us in broadsheet newspapers felt that we still had a responsibility to try to protect the Royal Family or if you like protect the Monarchy from the assaults of the media.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Compulsion was a key element in Leningrad’s survival, as in that of Stalin’s nation. If the city’s inhabitants had been offered an exchange of surrender for food in February 1942, they assuredly would have given.”

60. “Compulsion was a key element in Leningrad’s survival, as in that of Stalin’s nation. If the city’s inhabitants had been offered an exchange of surrender for food in February 1942, they assuredly would have given.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.”

61. “A Tory government with a decent mandate seems the only hope of tackling the fiscal catastrophe responsibly.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Diplomacy without politics is ultimately impotent.”

62. “Diplomacy without politics is ultimately impotent.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “In the course of the war, 168,000 Soviet citizens were formally sentenced to death and executed for alleged cowardice or desertion;.”

63. “In the course of the war, 168,000 Soviet citizens were formally sentenced to death and executed for alleged cowardice or desertion;.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.”

64. “The American and British armies in the Second World War paid a high price for the privilege of the profoundly anti-militaristic ethos of their nations.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.”

65. “You cannot write down how people are good; you just know it, and cannot get away from it.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Yet both Langlais and ‘Bruno’ were better suited to enduring a crucifixion than inspiring a resurrection.”

66. “Yet both Langlais and ‘Bruno’ were better suited to enduring a crucifixion than inspiring a resurrection.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Yet they persevered because a lethal cocktail of pride, fatalism, stupidity, and moral weakness prevented them from acknowledging their blunder.”

67. “Yet they persevered because a lethal cocktail of pride, fatalism, stupidity, and moral weakness prevented them from acknowledging their blunder.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Trying to maintain good relations814 with a communist is like wooing a crocodile, you do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it on the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile, or preparing to eat you up.”

68. “Trying to maintain good relations814 with a communist is like wooing a crocodile, you do not know whether to tickle it under the chin or beat it on the head. When it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile, or preparing to eat you up.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Between 20 and 23 August, 40,000 French soldiers died. By 29 August, total French casualties since the war began reached 260,000, including 75,000 dead.”

69. “Between 20 and 23 August, 40,000 French soldiers died. By 29 August, total French casualties since the war began reached 260,000, including 75,000 dead.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Potiorek was a bachelor who had devoted his life monastically to his profession, while remaining ignorant of every aspect of it that was either modern or important;.”

70. “Potiorek was a bachelor who had devoted his life monastically to his profession, while remaining ignorant of every aspect of it that was either modern or important;.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Relative American openness, contrasted with the communist commitment to secrecy, in my view constitutes a claim upon a fragment of moral high ground. The egregious error committed by US statesmen and commanders was not that of lying to the world, but rather that of lying to themselves.”

71. “Relative American openness, contrasted with the communist commitment to secrecy, in my view constitutes a claim upon a fragment of moral high ground. The egregious error committed by US statesmen and commanders was not that of lying to the world, but rather that of lying to themselves.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Meanwhile in the East, within weeks of abandoning their harvest fields, shops and lathes, newly mobilised Russian, Austrian and German soldiers met in huge clashes; tiny Serbia inflicted a succession of defeats on the Austrians which left the Hapsburg Empire reeling, having by Christmas suffered 1.27 million casualties at Serb and Russian hands, amounting to one in three of its soldiers mobilised.”

72. “Meanwhile in the East, within weeks of abandoning their harvest fields, shops and lathes, newly mobilised Russian, Austrian and German soldiers met in huge clashes; tiny Serbia inflicted a succession of defeats on the Austrians which left the Hapsburg Empire reeling, having by Christmas suffered 1.27 million casualties at Serb and Russian hands, amounting to one in three of its soldiers mobilised.”

— Max Hastings

Max Hastings Quote: “In action, there was a fine line between courage which heartened others and bluster which incurred their contempt.”

73. “In action, there was a fine line between courage which heartened others and bluster which incurred their contempt.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “Following a 1945 Muslim revolt in Algeria in which a hundred Europeans were killed, an estimated twenty-five thousand people were slaughtered by French troops. After a March 1947 rebellion in Madagascar, where thirty-seven thousand colons lorded it over 4.2 million black subjects, the army killed ninety thousand people.”

74. “Following a 1945 Muslim revolt in Algeria in which a hundred Europeans were killed, an estimated twenty-five thousand people were slaughtered by French troops. After a March 1947 rebellion in Madagascar, where thirty-seven thousand colons lorded it over 4.2 million black subjects, the army killed ninety thousand people.”

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Max Hastings Quote: “German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.”

75. “German test pilot Ernst Canter noted in his logbook that while in 1910 he flew at a height of eighty feet, two years later he was ascending to almost 5,000.”

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