ABSTRACT
An all-encompassing book with more than a thousand quotations, this work breathes life into an era unprecedented in world history. It looks at World War II in a new way with quotations from speeches, news accounts, memoirs, and interviews. Represented, too, are captured documents and material from Ultra and Magic, which broke the German and Japanese secret codes. All major political and military figures of the war are included, as well as many hitherto unknown. In addition, the encyclopedia serves as a lexicon of slang, nicknames and code names, and of war movies and war songs.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter |48 pages
The War Leaders
entry |13 pages
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
entry |12 pages
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945)
entry |19 pages
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945)
entry |4 pages
Joseph Stalin (1879-1953)
letter |78 pages
Military Officers
entry |1 pages
Harold Alexander (1891-1969)
entry |1 pages
Seizo Arisue (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Henry H. Arnold (1886-1950)
entry |1 pages
Claude Auchinleck (1884-1981)
entry |1 pages
Patrick Bellinger (1886-1962)
entry |1 pages
Werner Von Blomberg (1878-1946)
entry |1 pages
Guenther Blumentritt (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Tadeusz Bor-Komorowski (1895-1966)
entry |1 pages
Omar N. Bradley (1893-1981)
entry |1 pages
Walther Von Brauchitsch (1881-1948)
entry |2 pages
Lewis H. Brereton (1890-1967)
entry |1 pages
Mark W. Clark (1896-1984)
entry |1 pages
Belton Copter (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Andrew B. Cunningham (1883-1963)
entry |1 pages
W. Scott Cunningham (n.d.)
entry |2 pages
CHARLES de GAULLE (1890-1970)
entry |1 pages
Karl Dittmar (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Karl Doenitz (1891-1980)
entry |1 pages
Ernest Dupuy (n.d.)
entry |7 pages
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
entry |1 pages
John Eisenhower (1922- )
entry |1 pages
Thomas F. Farrell (1891-1968)
entry |1 pages
Erich Fellgieber (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Maurice Gamelin (1872-1958)
entry |1 pages
Hermann Goering (1893-1946)
entry |1 pages
Leslie R. Groves (1896-1970)
entry |1 pages
Heinz Guderian (1888-1954)
entry |1 pages
Franz Halder (1884-1972)
entry |1 pages
William F. Halsey, Jr. (1882-1959)
entry |1 pages
Gotthard Heinrici (1889-1931)
entry |3 pages
Adolf Heusinger (1897-1982)
entry |1 pages
Courtney Hodges (1887-1966)
entry |1 pages
Masaharu Homma (1888-1946)
entry |1 pages
Hastings Ismay (1887-1965)
entry |1 pages
Alfred Jodl (1890-1946)
entry |1 pages
Wilhelm Keitel (1883-1946)
entry |1 pages
Husband E. Kimmel (1882-1968)
entry |1 pages
Edward P. King, Jr. (1884-1958)
entry |1 pages
Ernest J. King (1878-1956)
entry |1 pages
William D. Leahy (1875-1959)
entry |1 pages
Raymond E. Lee (1896-1958)
entry |6 pages
Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
entry |1 pages
Hasso Von Manteuffel (1897-1978)
entry |3 pages
George C. Marshall (1880-1959)
entry |1 pages
LESLEY McNAIR (1883-1944)
entry |1 pages
F. W. Von Mellenthin (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Walther Model (1891-1945)
entry |2 pages
Bernard Montgomery (1887-1976)
entry |1 pages
Chester W. Nimitz (1885-1966)
entry |1 pages
Edmund North (1911-1990)
entry |2 pages
George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)
entry |1 pages
Friedrich Von Paulus (1890-1957)
entry |1 pages
William N. Porter (1886-1973)
entry |1 pages
Erich Raeder (1876-1960)
entry |1 pages
General Rohricht (n.d.)
entry |2 pages
Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
entry |1 pages
Elliott Roosevelt (1910-1990)
entry |1 pages
Gerd Von Rundstedt (1875-1953)
entry |1 pages
Frank A. Schofield (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Gordon S. Seagrave (1897-1965)
entry |1 pages
Walter Bedell Smith (1895-1961)
entry |1 pages
Brehon B. Somervell (1892-1955)
entry |1 pages
Harold R. Stark (1880-1972)
entry |1 pages
Claus Von Stauffenberg (1907-1944)
entry |1 pages
Joseph W. Stilwell (1883-1946)
entry |1 pages
Charles Tench (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Matoi Ugaki (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Jonathan Wainwright (1883-1953)
entry |1 pages
Walter Warlimont (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Paul M. Wenneker (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Maxime Weygand (1867-1965)
entry |1 pages
I. E. Yakir (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Isoruku Yamamoto (1884-1943)
entry |1 pages
Tomoyuki Yamashita (1885-1946)
entry |1 pages
Harry E. Yarnell (1875-1959)
entry |1 pages
Georgi K. Zhukov (1896-1974)
letter |51 pages
Government Officials
entry |1 pages
Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956)
entry |1 pages
Klaus Barbie (1913-1991)
entry |1 pages
William Beaverbrook (1879-1964)
entry |1 pages
Alexander Cadogan (1884-1968)
entry |2 pages
Neville Chamberlain (1869-1940)
entry |1 pages
Chiang Kai-Shek (1887-1975)
entry |2 pages
Jean Darlan (1881-1942)
entry |1 pages
Elmer Davis (1871-1958)
entry |1 pages
Francisco Franco (1892-1975)
entry |1 pages
Hans Frank (1900-1946)
entry |1 pages
Hans Fritzsche (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Walther Funk (1890-1960)
entry |1 pages
George VI (1895-1952)
entry |2 pages
Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945)
entry |1 pages
Haile Selassie (1891-1976)
entry |1 pages
Paul Hennicke (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Rudolf Hess (1894-1987)
entry |1 pages
Reinhard Heydrich (1904-1942)
entry |1 pages
Heinrich Himmler (1900-1945)
entry |1 pages
Hirohito (1901-1989)
entry |1 pages
Harry L. Hopkins (1890-1946)
entry |1 pages
John Houseman (n.d.)
entry |4 pages
Robert H. Jackson (1892-1954)
entry |1 pages
Nikita S. Khrushchev (1894-1971)
entry |1 pages
Frank Knox (1874-1944)
entry |1 pages
Pierre Laval (1883-1945)
entry |1 pages
Louis L. Ludlow (1873-1950)
entry |1 pages
Henry L. Morgenthau, Jr. (1891-1967)
entry |1 pages
Frank Murphy (1890-1949)
entry |2 pages
Benito Mussolini (1883-1945)
entry |2 pages
Henri Philippe Petain (1856-1951)
entry |1 pages
Nelson Poynter (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Paul Reynaud (1878-1966)
entry |1 pages
Robert R. Reynolds (1884-1963)
entry |1 pages
Edward V. Rickenbacker (1890-1973)
entry |1 pages
Samuel I. Rosenman (1896-1973)
entry |1 pages
Hans Rumpf (n.d.)
entry |2 pages
Albert Speer (1905-1981)
entry |5 pages
Henry L. Stimson (1867-1950)
entry |1 pages
Harlan F. Stone (1872-1946)
entry |1 pages
Hans-Georg Von Studnitz (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Hideki Tojo (1884-1948)
entry |3 pages
Harry S Truman (1884-1972)
entry |1 pages
Andrei Y. Vishinsky (1883-1954)
entry |3 pages
Henry A. Wallace (1888-1965)
entry |1 pages
Burton K. Wheeler (1882-1975)
entry |1 pages
Andrei Zhdanov (1896-1948)
letter |21 pages
Diplomats
entry |1 pages
William C. Bullitt (1891-1967)
entry |2 pages
Galeazzo Ciano (1903-1944)
entry |1 pages
Joseph E. Davies (1876-1958)
entry |2 pages
Joseph C. Grew (1880-1965)
entry |1 pages
Cordell Hull (1871-1955)
entry |1 pages
Paul R. Jolles (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Joseph P. Kennedy (1888-1969)
entry |2 pages
Breckinridge Long (1881-1958)
entry |1 pages
Hubert Masarik (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Yosuke Matsuoka (1880-1946)
entry |1 pages
Douglas Miller (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Vyacheslav M. Molotov (1890-1986)
entry |1 pages
Robert D. Murphy (1894-1978)
entry |1 pages
Kichisaburo Nomura (1877-1964)
entry |1 pages
Semi Pramoj (1905-1997)
entry |1 pages
Joachim Von Ribbentrop (1893-1946)
entry |1 pages
James W. Riddleberger (1904- )
entry |1 pages
Friedrich Von Der Schulenburg (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Consul-General Shepherd (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Paul-Henri Spaak (1899-1972)
entry |2 pages
Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. (1900-1949)
entry |1 pages
Hans Thomsen (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Shigenori Togo (1882-1950)
entry |1 pages
Hugh R. Wilson (1885-1946)
letter |28 pages
Warriors
entry |1 pages
Bill Bailey (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Paul Boesch (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Joseph Broder (1923- )
entry |1 pages
William C. Brooks (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
John D. Bulkeley (1911-1996)
entry |1 pages
Harold Dixon (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
James H. Doolittle (1896-1994)
entry |1 pages
Alexander Drabik (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Teddy Draper, SR. (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
William Dyess (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
James M. Gavin (1907- )
entry |1 pages
Jack Gerrie (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Howard W. Gilmore (1902-1943)
entry |2 pages
Hy Haas (1915- )
entry |1 pages
Eunice C. Hatchitt (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Roger Hilsman (1920- )
entry |1 pages
Leon W. Johnson (1904-1997)
entry |1 pages
Thomas Kinkaid (1888-1972)
entry |1 pages
Robert Lewis (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Rossi Lomanitz (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
William Manchester (1922- )
entry |1 pages
Donald Francis Mason (1913- )
entry |1 pages
Jim Mattera (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Anthony McAuliffe (1898-1975)
entry |1 pages
David McCampbell (1910-1996)
entry |1 pages
Marcus McDilda (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Noda Mitsuharu (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Alfred Naujocks (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Sakai Saburo (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
H. P. Samwell (?-1945)
entry |1 pages
Bob Slaughter (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Eddie Slovik (1920-1945)
entry |1 pages
C. A. F. Sprague (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Irving Strobing (1920-1997)
entry |1 pages
Paul W. Tibbets, Jr. (1915- )
entry |1 pages
Rupert Trimmingham (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Teruichi Ukita (1925- )
entry |1 pages
Bud Warnecke (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Shoichi Yokoi (1915-1997)
letter |3 pages
Chaplains
entry |1 pages
William Cummings (1903-1944)
entry |1 pages
Howell M. Forgy (1908-1983)
entry |1 pages
James H. O'Neill (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Jacob P. Rudin (n.d.)
letter |11 pages
Intelligence Officials and Spies
entry |2 pages
Wilhelm Canaris (1887-1945)
entry |1 pages
Eddie Chapman (1914-1997)
entry |1 pages
William J. Donovan (1883-1959)
entry |2 pages
Allen Dulles (1893-1966)
entry |1 pages
Reinhard Gehlen (1902-1979)
entry |1 pages
Tyler Kent (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Alvin D. Kramer (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Kanji Ogawa (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Kim Philby (1912-1988)
entry |1 pages
Richard Sorge (1898-1944)
entry |1 pages
William Stephenson (1896-1967)
entry |1 pages
Richard Weil, Jr. (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
F. W. Winterbotham (n.d.)
letter |6 pages
Scientists and Engineers
entry |1 pages
Ken Bainbridge (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
entry |1 pages
Edward U. Condon (1902-1974)
entry |1 pages
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
entry |1 pages
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967)
entry |1 pages
Arthur Rudolph (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Robert Serber (1909-1997)
entry |1 pages
Edward Teller (1908- )
letter |29 pages
Journalists and Cartoonists
entry |1 pages
Jonah Barrington (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Margaret Bourke-White (1904-1971)
entry |1 pages
David Breger 1908-1970)
entry |1 pages
Wright Bryan (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Howard Cowan (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
John Daly (1914-1991)
entry |1 pages
Walter Duranty (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
John Gunther (1901-1970)
entry |1 pages
Marion Hargrove (1919- )
entry |1 pages
William D. Hassett (1880-1965)
entry |2 pages
John Hersey (1914-1993)
entry |1 pages
Frank Hewlett (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
James Hilton (1900-1954)
entry |1 pages
Godfrey Hodgson (n.d.)
entry |2 pages
Ralph Ingersoll (1900-1985)
entry |1 pages
James Jones (1921-1977)
entry |1 pages
Edward Kennedy (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Henry Keyes (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Arthur Krock (1886-1974)
entry |1 pages
Chesly Manly (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Bill Mauldin (1921- )
entry |1 pages
Mack Morriss (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Ian F. D. Morrow (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965)
entry |3 pages
Ernie Pyle (1900-1945)
entry |1 pages
Andy Rooney (1919- )
entry |2 pages
Robert Sherrod (1909- )
entry |1 pages
Merriman Smith (1913-1970)
entry |1 pages
Robert St. John (1902- )
entry |1 pages
I. F. Stone (1907-1989)
entry |1 pages
Walter Winchell (1891-1972)
letter |31 pages
Historians and Biographers
entry |1 pages
Thomas B. Allen (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Stephen E. Ambrose (1935- )
entry |1 pages
Maurice Baumont (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Charles A. Beard (1874-1948)
entry |1 pages
Antony Beevor (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Thomas B. Buell (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Iris Chang (1968- )
entry |1 pages
Terry Charman (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Wayne S. Cole (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
William Craig (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Edward Crankshaw (1909- )
entry |1 pages
Peter Fleming (1907- )
entry |1 pages
Martin Gilbert (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Doris Kearns Goodwin (1943- )
entry |1 pages
Peter Grose (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Nigel Hamilton (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
George Hicks (1936- )
entry |1 pages
Annette Kahn (1941- )
entry |1 pages
David Kahn (1930- )
entry |1 pages
William L. Langer (1896-1959)
entry |1 pages
Callum MacDonald (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Robert H. McNeal (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Richard Overy (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Edvard Radzinsky (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Terence Robertson (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Hans Rothfels (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Cornelius Ryan (1920-1974)
entry |1 pages
Robert E. Sherwood (1896-1955)
entry |2 pages
William L. Shirer (1904-1994)
entry |1 pages
William Stevenson (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
A. J. P. Taylor (1906-1983)
entry |1 pages
Marcel Thiry (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
John Toland (1912- )
entry |1 pages
H. R. Trevor-Roper (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Barbara W. Tuchman (1912-1989)
entry |1 pages
Alexander Werth (1901-1969)
letter |12 pages
Influential Personalities
entry |1 pages
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek (1900- )
entry |1 pages
John Foster Dulles (1888-1959)
entry |1 pages
Queen Elizabeth (1900- )
entry |1 pages
William Joyce (1908-1946)
entry |1 pages
Charles A. Lindbergh, Jr. (1902-1974)
entry |1 pages
Joe Louis (1914-1981)
entry |1 pages
Margaret Mead (1901-1978)
entry |1 pages
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
entry |1 pages
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
entry |1 pages
Alexander P. de Seversky (1894-1974)
entry |1 pages
Norman Thomas (1884-1968)
entry |2 pages
Wendell L. Willkie (1892-1944)
entry |1 pages
Robert E. Wood (n.d.)
letter |12 pages
Civilians
entry |1 pages
John Baker (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Eva Braun (1912-1945)
entry |1 pages
Emma Calp (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Mrs. B. D. Cooksey (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Hirosawa Ei (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Anne Frank (1929-1945)
entry |1 pages
Arvid Fredborg (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Magda Goebbels (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Max Von Der Grun (1926- )
entry |1 pages
Maria Rosa Henson (1928-1997)
entry |1 pages
Jeanne Kahn (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Ursula Von Kardorff (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Madam X (1927- )
entry |1 pages
Hadassah Rosensaft (1912-1997)
entry |1 pages
Eduard Schulte (n.d.)
entry |1 pages
Kay Summersby (1908-1975)
entry |1 pages
Dr. Tsuno (?-1945)
entry |1 pages
Marie Vassiltchikov (1917-1978)
letter |22 pages
Institutional Quotations
entry |2 pages
Atlantic Charter
entry |1 pages
British War Cabinet
entry |1 pages
Cairo Conference
entry |1 pages
Casablanca Conference
entry |1 pages
Declaration of Union
entry |1 pages
German Armed Forces
entry |1 pages
German Navy
entry |2 pages
International Military Tribunal
entry |2 pages
Japanese Government
entry |1 pages
Moscow Declaration on Atrocities
entry |1 pages
Munich Agreement
entry |1 pages
Nazi-Soviet Pact
entry |1 pages
Office of Strategic Services/ Special Operations Executive
entry |1 pages
Potsdam Conference
entry |1 pages
Ration Board
entry |3 pages
Roberts Commission Report on Pearl Harbor
entry |1 pages
Teheran Conference
entry |1 pages
Time Magazine
entry |1 pages
Tripartite Pact
entry |1 pages
United Nations Declaration
entry |1 pages
United States Government
entry |1 pages
United States Navy
entry |1 pages
Volkisher Beobachter
entry |1 pages
Yalta Conference
letter |4 pages
Anonymous Quotations
letter |10 pages
War Movies
letter |2 pages
War Songs
letter |9 pages
War Lexicon
letter |40 pages
Miscellaneous Quotations
entry |1 pages
America First Committee
entry |2 pages
Apocrypha
entry |1 pages
Bataan Death March
entry |1 pages
Bulge, Battle of the
entry |1 pages
Clark Mission
entry |1 pages
Coal Strike
entry |1 pages
Committee to Defend America by Aiding the Allies
entry |1 pages
D-Day
entry |1 pages
Dresden Firebombing
entry |1 pages
Dunkirk Evacuation
entry |1 pages
Editorial Cartoons
entry |1 pages
El Alamein
entry |1 pages
Fifth Column
entry |1 pages
Flying Tigers
entry |1 pages
Greer Encounter
entry |1 pages
Hess Flight to Scotland
entry |1 pages
Holocaust
entry |2 pages
Hossbach Memorandum
entry |1 pages
Indianapolis Disaster
entry |2 pages
Japanese Relocation
entry |1 pages
Kamikaze
entry |1 pages
Katyn Forest Massacre
entry |1 pages
Lend-Lease
entry |1 pages
MacArthur Candidacy
entry |1 pages
Magic
entry |1 pages
Market-Garden
entry |3 pages
Mein Kampf
entry |1 pages
Nazi Saboteurs
entry |1 pages
Open City
entry |1 pages
Phony War
entry |1 pages
Ploesti Raid
entry |1 pages
Quisling
entry |1 pages
Rosenberg Case
entry |1 pages
Sea Lion
entry |1 pages
Slave Labor
entry |1 pages
Stalingrad, Battle of
entry |1 pages
Synthetic Rubber Scandal
entry |1 pages
Ultra
entry |1 pages
USO
entry |1 pages
V for Victory
entry |2 pages
War Humor
entry |1 pages
Warsaw Uprisings
entry |1 pages
Winds Message
entry |1 pages
Women in Uniform