Even A Pacifist Should Admire

The Written History Of The World Is Largely A History Of Warfare, Because The States Within Which We Live Came Into Existence Largely Through Conquest, Civil Strife, Or Struggles For Independence.

Nobody Should Teach Anywhere For 25 Years, But I Did.

Of Whatever Class Or Nation, However, All Successful Participants In The Repetitive And Unrelenting Stress Of Aerial Fighting Came Eventually To Display Its Characteristic Physiognomy: Skeletal Hands, Sharpened Noses, Tight-drawn Cheek Bones, The Bared Teeth Of A Rictus Smile And The Fixed, Narrowed Gaze Of Men In A State Of Controlled Fear.

The Great Men Of Power Who Seek To Change The Nations They Belong To Usually Are Pretty Terrible People.

The Second World War Is The Largest Single Event In Human History, Fought Across Six Of The World's Seven Continents And All It Oceans. It Killed 50 Million Human Beings, Left Hundreds Of Millions Of Others Wounded In Mind Or Body And Materially Devastated Much Of The Heartland Of Civilization.