Under the Wire: The World War II Adventures of Legendary Escape Artist and "Cooler King"

Bibliography update:

1. Blake, Sarah.  The Postmistress.  New York, 2010.
2. Harris, Tomas.  Garbo: The Spy who Saved D-Day.  London, 2004.
3. Herbert, Brian.  The Forgotten Heroes: The heroic Story of the United States Merchant Marine.  NYC, Tom Doherty Associates, 2004. 
4. Knightley, Phillip.  The Second Oldest Profession.  London, 1986.
5. Rose, Kenneth.  Elusive Rothschild: The Life of Victor, Third Baron.  London, 2003.
6. Sebag-Montefiore, Hugh.  Enigma: The Battle for the Code.  London, 2010.
7. Thomson, Sir Basil.  The Milliner's Hat.  London, 1937.

"We shall go down in history as the greatest statesmen of all time, or as the greatest criminals." - Josef Goebbel, Minister of Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda (before he committed suicide)

From http://www.worldwar2tributes.com/

"Don't fire until you can see the whites of their eyes." - Major Devereux (the battle of Wake Island, 1941)

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"They have given their sons to the military services. They have stoked the furnaces and hurried the factory wheels. They have made the planes and welded the tanks. Riveted the ships and rolled the shells." - President Franklin D. Roosevelt (addressing women's contributions to the war)

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"I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by a ringing of a bell are not to my liking; the bell is rung when people call their servants. And besides, what kind of conferences are these? For five hours I am forced to listen to a monologue which is quite fruitless and boring." - Benito Mussolini, Fascist Dictator (To his son in law on June 10th, 1941)

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"Nuts" - General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)

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"Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls." - Prime Minister Winston Churchill

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"When I said that British fighter-bombers had shot up my tanks with 40mm shells, the Reichsmarschall who felt himself touched by this, said: 'That's completely impossible. The Americans only know how to make razor blades.' I replied: 'We could do with some of those razor blades, Herr Reichsmarshall."
Field Marshall Erwin Rommel

From http://www.marksquotes.com/

"I fear all we have done is awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, upon learning of the success of the attack on Pearl Harbor

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"No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country."

General George S. Patton, Jr.,
in Patton by Francis Ford Coppola

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"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
Winston Churchill (speaking about the Royal Air Force)

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"We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be. We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender."

Winston Churchill

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Quotes from Winston Churchill

Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour!”

High Flight
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I've climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds - and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of - wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence.
Hov'ring thereI've chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air.
Up, up the long delirious, burning blue,
I've topped the windswept heights with easy grace
Where never lark, or even eagle flew -
And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod
The high untresspassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
No 412 squadron, RCAF
Killed 11 December 1941