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![Diana Gabaldon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670465511i/3617._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem.”
― Dragonfly in Amber
― Dragonfly in Amber
![Madeline Miller](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1322861610i/176372._UX200_CR0,8,200,200_.jpg)
“There is no law that gods must be fair, Achilles,” Chiron said. “And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone. Do you think?”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
![Rudyard Kipling](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1550677494i/6989._UX200_CR0,31,200,200_.jpg)
“If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son.”
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
― If: A Father's Advice to His Son
![Yvonne Korshak](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670540014i/746237._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“It had happened. Thucydides, his archrival, was a general. Glaucon, from his own tribe, was a general. And Pericles was no longer a general. He was just a citizen with one vote. And an idea”
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
― Pericles and Aspasia: A Story of Ancient Greece
![Ruta Sepetys](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633801019i/3407448._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Good men are often more practical than pretty " said Mother. "Andrius just happens to be both.”
― Between Shades of Gray
― Between Shades of Gray
![Diana Gabaldon](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1670465511i/3617._UX200_CR0,49,200,200_.jpg)
“But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.”
― Outlander
― Outlander
![Hermann Rauschning](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1432434687i/295695._UX200_CR0,24,200,200_.jpg)
“Demoralize the enemy from within by surprise, terror, sabotage, assassination. This is the war of the future.”
― Voice of Destruction, The
― Voice of Destruction, The
![Nancy Omeara](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“How did I become President?
I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
― The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
I began by setting an example, hanging out my own dirty laundry in front of Village Earth right from the start. Every ugly little life secret became a matter of public record. Of course, that included sordid love-life details.”
― The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way, the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
― Willfully Ignorant
― Willfully Ignorant
![Diana Forbes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1568996911i/16857084._UX200_CR0,3,200,200_.jpg)
“I felt hot under my Mutton sleeves. "I just wish he'd have the decency to say whatever he came to say in front of his wife."
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Mistress Suffragette
"Perhaps his wife is busy today."
"She shouldn't be." His wife should track him like a bloodhound.”
― Mistress Suffragette
![Gwenn Wright](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1395687401i/4191733._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“How many times can a heart be shattered and still be pieced back together? How many times before the damage is irreparable?”
― The BlueStocking Girl
― The BlueStocking Girl
![Ruta Sepetys](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633801019i/3407448._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot.
We were about to become cigarettes.”
― Between Shades of Gray
We were about to become cigarettes.”
― Between Shades of Gray
![Diana Forbes](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1568996911i/16857084._UX200_CR0,3,200,200_.jpg)
“I wished he'd stop trying to put me off. It was becoming irksome. Or, if he were, then he really needed to stop acting so damned charming.”
― Mistress Suffragette
― Mistress Suffragette
![Michael G. Kramer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg)
“Sergeant Max Franklin replied, “Just go back to your post at number six and keep your wits about you. The word from the Americans in “Big Red One” is that the Noggies are coming to us. I hope not, but it could be what you have been hearing.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
![Michael Tobert](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1384605669i/665624._UY200_CR10,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The street outside is empty, lit only by a half moon; yet factory engines beat in the background and the working day is about to begin. Maggie steps out of the tenement and suddenly the street begins to fill with women, some running, some pulling their jackets around them, some lighting pipes, some, like Maggie herself, taking a pinch of snuff. From other tenements come other women, and soon all merge into one, like a herd of cattle off to market, clopping over the stone pavements and the cobbles, lowing with last night’s news.”
― Karna's Wheel
― Karna's Wheel
“During the Depression of the 1930s everyone suffered, even the rich. It was hard times for all and people helped each other if they could. Americans coming through that together meant something. Now they were being asked to struggle again. But because so many servicemen were killed at Pearl Harbor, Americans had a cause that they all shared – fight the Fascists and keep the threat and the war from coming home. Yet, now the grim reality, the depths of the sacrifices, and the grief of their losses was devastating.”
― O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
― O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: The Cases Nobody Wanted
![Paolo Maurensig](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1620509036i/260922._UX200_CR0,5,200,200_.jpg)
“Life's temptations have the purpose of putting our spiritual integrity to the test. To yield to them, however, gives one a precarious and tormented satisfaction. But the worst temptations are those we give in to without getting anything in return except for the brutal discovery of our weakness.”
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![Ruta Sepetys](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1633801019i/3407448._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“What determines how we remember history and which elements are preserved and penetrate the collective consciousness? If historical novels stir your interest, pursue the facts, history, memories, and personal testimonies available. These are the shoulders that historical fiction sits upon. When the survivors are gone we must not let the truth disappear with them. Please, give them a voice.”
― Salt to the Sea
― Salt to the Sea
![Michael G. Kramer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg)
“As well, they used their B-52 bombers to drop thousands of tons of bombs which included napalm and cluster bombs. In a particularly vile attack, they used poisonous chemicals on our base regions of Xuyen Moc, the Minh Dam and the Nui Thi Vai mountains. They sprayed their defoliants over jungle, and productive farmland alike. They even bull-dozed bare, both sides along the communication routes and more than a kilometre into the jungle adjacent to our base areas.
This caused the Ba Ria-Long Khanh Province Unit to send out a directive to D445 and D440 Battalions that as of 01/November/1969, the rations of both battalions would be set at 27 litres of rice per man per month when on operations. And 25 litres when in base or training.
So it was that as the American forces withdrew, their arms and lavish base facilities were transferred across to the RVN. The the forces of the South Vietnamese Government were with thereby more resources but this also created any severe maintenance, logistic and training problems.
The Australian Army felt that a complete Australian withdrawal was desirable with the departure of the Task Force (1ATF), but the conservative government of Australia thought that there were political advantages in keeping a small force in south Vietnam.
Before his election, in 1964, Johnston used a line which promised peace, but also had a policy of war. The very same tactic was used by Nixon. Nixon had as early as 1950 called for direction intervention by American Forces which were to be on the side of the French colonialists.
The defoliants were sprayed upon several millions of hectares, and it can best be described as virtual biocide. According to the figure from the Americans themselves, between the years of 1965 to 1973, ten million Vietnamese people were forced to leave their villages ad move to cities because of what the Americans and their allies had done.
The Americans intensified the bombing of whole regions of Laos which were controlled by Lao patriotic forces. They used up to six hundred sorties per day with many types of aircraft including B52s.
On 07/January/1979, the Vietnamese Army using Russian built T-54 and T-59 tanks, assisted by some Cambodian patriots liberated Phnom Penh while the Pol Pot Government and its agencies fled into the jungle. A new government under Hun Sen was installed and the Khmer Rouge’s navy was sunk nine days later in a battle with the Vietnamese Navy which resulted in twenty-two Kampuchean ships being sunk.”
― A Gracious Enemy
This caused the Ba Ria-Long Khanh Province Unit to send out a directive to D445 and D440 Battalions that as of 01/November/1969, the rations of both battalions would be set at 27 litres of rice per man per month when on operations. And 25 litres when in base or training.
So it was that as the American forces withdrew, their arms and lavish base facilities were transferred across to the RVN. The the forces of the South Vietnamese Government were with thereby more resources but this also created any severe maintenance, logistic and training problems.
The Australian Army felt that a complete Australian withdrawal was desirable with the departure of the Task Force (1ATF), but the conservative government of Australia thought that there were political advantages in keeping a small force in south Vietnam.
Before his election, in 1964, Johnston used a line which promised peace, but also had a policy of war. The very same tactic was used by Nixon. Nixon had as early as 1950 called for direction intervention by American Forces which were to be on the side of the French colonialists.
The defoliants were sprayed upon several millions of hectares, and it can best be described as virtual biocide. According to the figure from the Americans themselves, between the years of 1965 to 1973, ten million Vietnamese people were forced to leave their villages ad move to cities because of what the Americans and their allies had done.
The Americans intensified the bombing of whole regions of Laos which were controlled by Lao patriotic forces. They used up to six hundred sorties per day with many types of aircraft including B52s.
On 07/January/1979, the Vietnamese Army using Russian built T-54 and T-59 tanks, assisted by some Cambodian patriots liberated Phnom Penh while the Pol Pot Government and its agencies fled into the jungle. A new government under Hun Sen was installed and the Khmer Rouge’s navy was sunk nine days later in a battle with the Vietnamese Navy which resulted in twenty-two Kampuchean ships being sunk.”
― A Gracious Enemy
![Michael G. Kramer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg)
“The adrenaline rush subsides as it becomes harder to catch your breath. You become light headed, then dizzy and confused as the air runs out. Reason and sense evaporate as the darkness claims you. That is how it felt to be a Tunnel Rat.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
![Michael G. Kramer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg)
“This stated, “Dear Mr. Prime Minister, I am delighted by the decision of your government to provide an infantry battalion for service in South Vietnam at the request of the Government of South Vietnam” The simple fact about this was that no such request was ever received by the Australian Government.”
― A Gracious Enemy
― A Gracious Enemy
![Michael G. Kramer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508222619i/15015247.jpg)
“The Minister of Army answered, “Bob, I thought that you would have been an astute and clever enough a politician to think of this yourself, but seeing how you have asked me, I suggest that you wait until eight in the night on Thursday 29/April/1965 to announce that Australia will send the First Battalion Royal Australian Regiment to fight in South Vietnam. By you waiting until the evening of 29/April/1965 to announce this in Parliament, the labour opposition leader of Arthur Caldwell and his deputy leader of Gough Whitlam should be absent, as will be most of the entire parliament, because the following day is the beginning of a long week-
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
end. You are legally not required to give advanced warning to the house, so you can easily get away with this!”
― A Gracious Enemy & After the War Volume One
![John Gardner](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1342714293i/481146._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.”
― Grendel
'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.”
― Grendel
![Nancy Omeara](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1415909689i/6015512._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“After iris-scanning was legally accepted as identity verification for drivers licenses, passports and so much more, anyone could securely log onto the Internet from any computer anywhere via such a scan.
Elections (much less air travel) have never been the same”
― The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
Elections (much less air travel) have never been the same”
― The Most Popular President Who Ever Lived [So Far]
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