Word: napoleon
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simplifies history a little too much. It also seems rather foolish to keep harping on a treaty which is now practically nonexistent. Given his choice between the territory possessed by Germany in 1914 and the territory possessed by Germany now, Hitler would very probably choose the latter. Napoleon would have been Napoleon regardless of circumstances. The Versailles Treaty did not make Hitler, it merely gave him a pretext...
...since it came off the Vatican presses in 1532, politicians of all shades have found the Prince such a helpful manual of power, how to get and how to keep it, that it has shared their admiration with only one other book, von Clausewitz's On War. Napoleon called it "the only readable political book." Lenin told his Bolsheviks to read the Prince "as an antidote to stupidity...
...talking stopped, the shooting started. More completely alone than any great power at the start of any great war, Germany plunged into conflict so vast that victory for her could only mean, not that a lightning war was irresistible, but that Adolf Hitler had measured himself against Napoleon...
...German military attache asked what use Poland, with its terrible roads, had for tanks. The Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin, he is an admirer and close student of Napoleon. In his study are two busts and four portraits of the Little Corporal. Softspoken, shy, gentle, he cannot be profane or brutal when he tries. The Army...
...Antwerp to Helsingfors, a tight-knit little band of neutrals, determined to keep their neutrality and to defend it, if need be, with force. Between Germany and France lay The Netherlands, Belgium, tiny Luxembourg, and, south of the Westwall and Maginot Lines, Switzerland. All of them were ruled by Napoleon, liberated by Wellington. Along the North and Baltic Seas, where the British and German Navies may meet, were Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland. Together these eight countries might turn the balance of power in Europe. None of them wanted...