Epstein Secrets

ct of air power in World War I was in bombing submarines. Van Creveld acerbically notes that World War II began with Hermann Goering, commander of Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe, directing his pilots to strike only military targets, and effectively ended with the Enola Gay releasing history's deadliest weapon on t

ctories not to the number or quality of German planes but to a unified military command, good planning and the passion to expand the German Reich. Hitler's "final conquest of England" failed because British morale was too strong to break under repeated bombing and because the Royal Air Force downed s

d authoritative history, since its zenith during World War II, when two United States B-29s ended the global struggle by dropping their payloads on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the value of air power has largely fizzled. McGeorge Bundy observed in 1988, after his own harsh experience as an architect of the Vi

m in 7he Realist, an actual statement by Adolf Eichmann that he would have been “not only a scoundrel, but a despicable pig” if he hadn't carried out Hitler's orders. Lenny wrote a piece for 7he Realist “Letter From a Soldier's Wife,” namely Mrs. Eichmann pleading for compassion to spare her husband's li

Do you people think yourselves better because you burned your enemies at long distance with missiles without ever seeing what you had done to them? Hiroshima auf Wiedersehen. [German accent ends.] If we would have lost the war, they would have strung Truman up by the balls, Jim. Are you kidding with that?

ntries made on the stage of world history. Some of this unease was surely a result of his own life, marked by a lucky escape from Germany in 1937, as Hitler was finally perfecting a national machine of lurid and murderous potency. I suspect Morgenthau would have been terrified now by the always-on, all-se

he debate over how to manage an age when it was, for the first time, possible for humans to destroy the planet was colored still by fresh memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was charged too with the fear of communist expansion, not an unreasonable worry for Americans who had just fought a world war agains

l, but a despicable pig" if he hadn't carried out Hitler's orders. Lenny wrote a piece for The Realist, "L

m in The Realist, an actual statement by Adolf Eichmann that he would have been "not only a scoundrel, but a despicable pig" if he hadn't carried out Hitler's orders. Lenny wrote a piece for The Realist, "Letter From a Soldier's Wife," namely Mrs. Eichmann pleading for compassion to spare her husband's li

. Do you people think yourselves better because you burned your enemies at long distance with missiles without ever seeing what you had done to them? Hiroshima auf Wiedersehen. [German accent ends.] If we would have lost the war, they would have strung Truman up by the balls, Jim. Are you kidding with that?