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One of the books that Lily had brought Rumfoord was The Destruction of Dresden, by an Englishman named David Irving.
Kurt Vonnegut • Slaughterhouse-Five
J. Hector
Jon Meacham • Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
“The only thing that mattered was that I did my best to make sure everyone else came back alive.”
Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor
hard-bitten
Jean Edward Smith • FDR
most early attack reports are anecdotal accounts collected by travelers and, with the exception of the German lepidopterist whose remains were identified only by his butterfly net and jacket buttons,
John Vaillant • The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
“Your Captain fought back,” she told him. “He resisted, he wouldn’t let them take his identity. He died free.”
Adam Johnson • The Orphan Master's Son: A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)
The destruction could not be halted, for the hatred of the imperial troops was directed against abstract ideas: not Jews but the places where they worshiped, the homes where they lived.
James A. Michener • The Source: A Novel
veriest tyro