A Man Called Intrepid: The Incredible True Story of the Master Spy Who Helped Win World War II

by William Stevenson

Some trace of civilized German behavior, Bohr had always argued, might be maintained if one conducted oneself as though other human beings were rational in their behavior.

“Professor Bohr was a gentle soul,” said Stephenson. “He genuinely believed in Gandhi’s philosophy of opposing evil with humility, of resisting violence with intellectual weapons. He had to come out of Nazi surroundings to comprehend the scale of wickedness we were dealing with.”

“If you don’t resist violence, you’ll surrender to a violent ideology all the values of our civilization, built up by generations of struggle.” “But civilized behavior calls for non-violence.” “The freedom to behave in a civilized way must be defended, and sometimes that means using violence. . . .”

He felt that Nazism and other forms of tyranny were possible because men like Bohr clung blindly to their belief that reason is the strongest force in human beings. Because of this

The greater danger to individual freedom comes from totalitarian regimes that regard any dissenting view as a threat to be destroyed—no matter if the threat comes from a lonely writer protesting against injustice or from another nation.

This book about WW2 gives a reader a lot to think about in today's world .

“Abraham Lincoln captured its essence more than a century ago when he wrote: ‘What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, or bristling seacoasts, our army and navy. . . . Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty