Show 42 Blitz Logical Insanity

“The book discusses the impact of bombings during World War II, detailing the devastation caused by fire raids and the atomic bombings in Japan.”

“Jules Verne treats them like clipper ships and the captain can stroll out you know open up the window and step outside onto the bow of his giant Zeppelin.”

“Wells writes a book called The War in the Air, and it's similar to other books being written at the time that theorize these giant Zeppelin fleets.”

“Duet writes in his book, the command of the air, about the impact of aerial offensives upon morale and the conduct of war.”

“In the book, The Laws of War, historian Tammy Davis Biddle goes and quotes some of the military manuals from right before the Second World War.”

“Herman Canel wrote a book trying to wake people up to the horrific nature of this whole idea of bombing people from the air but of course he has a section about bombing Britain first earlier in the war.”

“There was a quote in one of the books I was reading by a, bomber command physicist, one of these people whose job it was to make the damage worse. And his name was Freeman Dyson.”

“As British author, Len Dayton wrote about the Germans deciding to switch to night bombing, because it was the only way to keep their bomber force from being destroyed.”

“Kate Hofmeister was quoted by Gwyn Dyer in his wonderful book, War, discussing her experience during the 1943 Hamburg bombing.”

“Horg Friedrich, in his very interesting book about, from the German perspective of this whole bombing thing, has horrific story after horrific story about all of these things.”

“FDR made a statement that's recorded to Henry Morgenthau on the 4th of August, 1941, about defeating Hitler quoted in Conrad Crane's book.”

“In his wonderful book on killing, Army Lieutenant Colonel David Grossman talks about how distance makes killing possible and how the farther away you are from the target you're killing, the easier it is to do.”

“If you go read hell to pay those japanese civilians had a role to play fighting off the american invasion and it was going to be bloody and horrible and glorious if you believe the kamikaze type literature.”