How War Came Quotes

“In the end the war was Hitler's war. It was not perhaps the war he wanted. But it was the war he was prepared to risk if he had to. Nothing could deter him...He was no longer prepared to wait on events. He needed to force them to manipulate them to manufacture incidents to create pretexts for action.”
― Donald Cameron Watt, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War

“History is lived through and, for the fortunate, survived by people.”
― Donald Cameron Watt, How War Came: The Immediate Origins of the Second World War