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“I have fortified myself with enough philosophy to cope with anything that’s been thrown at me over the years,” says Herzog. “I always manage to wrestle something from the situation, no matter what.”
Paul Cronin • Werner Herzog – A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
A legendary battlefield commander, Leclerc was most famous for fighting his way north with a Free French force 420 miles from Fort Lamy in Chad to join the British Eighth Army in the Sahara in February 1941.
Jean Edward Smith • Eisenhower in War and Peace
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Favorite documentary Little Dieter Needs to Fly by Werner Herzog is
Timothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
The ‘Old Fritz’ had earned his affectionate nickname in a series of successive military victories (including against France in 1757), often leading his men into battle in person, putting himself in such danger that several horses were shot from under him.
Katja Hoyer • Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire
Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck and the Schutztruppe
A. R. B. Linderman • Rediscovering Irregular Warfare
After all, to those Jews who had despaired of Europe, to those Jews for whom Zionism was the beginning of a renewed dream and a renewed hope, Herzl was Abraham, who first wandered “to the place that I will show you.” He was Moses, leading his flock to the Promised Land. He was David, with the promise of renewed Jewish sovereignty. He was Bar
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