Show 50 Blueprint For Armageddon I

“The author had written a book about how John F. Kennedy was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, just like the government always said it happened.”

“Did anybody do more damage than Alfred Thayer Mayhan when he decides to write a book on naval history? Because the Kaiser, like Roosevelt, read it, was enthralled with it.”

“The British were snapping up books like The Great Illusion written by Norman Angle, where every historian points out how influential this book was, explaining that the war continually threatened is never going to happen.”

“Engels wrote about the coming conflict and how terrible it was going to be, hoping for an overthrow of all existing regimes to be replaced by communism.”

“Barbara Tuckman has a passage in her book where she quotes the commander of the Belgian force that were resisting this German assault by General von Emick and his special brigades.”

“John Keegan strikes me as somebody who feels this absolute need to defend this idea of German, you know, devilishness.”

“Ferguson, what I love about what Ferguson says is he goes and finds like the original thing that happened and then how it got blown out of proportion.”