The Start of World War II Quotes

“ancient Sanskrit proverb "the enemy of my enemy is my friend,”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“the right-wing Nazis”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the nation into a stable, prosperous democracy.”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“an absurdly parsimonious monetary policy helped bring about the Great Depression.”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“the campaign in Poland is remembered as one in which an antiquated Polish army was quickly pummeled by the world’s most modern army. Polish lancers charging in a valiant yet idiotic attack against German tanks is the only image from the 1939 Nazi-Soviet invasion of Poland remaining in the popular imagination today. Originating as a piece of Nazi propaganda, paradoxically adopted by the Poles as a patriotic myth, the fictional charge obscures the actual events of September 1939.”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“First we beat the enemy, then we count them.”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“England has been offered a choice between war and shame. She has chosen shame, and will get war.”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“Stalin's diplomatic crony Vyacheslav Molotov, after whom partisans ironically named Molotov cocktails)”
― Charles River Editors, The Start of World War II: The History of the Events that Culminated with Nazi Germany’s Invasion of Poland

“carriers again set out to”
― Charles River Editors, The Naval Warfare of World War II: The History of the Ships, Tactics, and Battles that Shaped the Fighting in the Atlantic and Pacific

“The Sumerians are credited with being the first people to invent writing, libraries, cities, and schools in Mesopotamia (Ziskind 1972, 34), and many would argue that they were the first people to create and do those things anywhere in world.”
― Charles River Editors, The Sumerians: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Mesopotamian Empire that Established Civilization