black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

I think in many ways, the Spanish Civil War was the first battle of World War II.

Adam Hochschild

Related Topics

Airplane Attack Battle Civil Country Language Many Military Second War Way World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Across Atlantic Note People Ship Slave Taking Traveled
And yet the world we live in-its divisions and conflicts, its widening gap between rich and poor
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Connected Course Event Growing Huge Inequality Intimately Problem Silence Trying
Leopold’s Congo is but one of those silences of history.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

History Leopold Congo Second Silence Story War World
And American soldiers were the victims of these things in Spain, American volunteers. So this war was really a testing ground for Hitler.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Country Ground Hitler Politics Realy Soldier Testing Thing Victim Volunteer War Was
Many of the principle weapons that the Nazis used during World War II had their first trial in combat in Spain
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

During First Principle Second Soldier Trail Used Volunteer War Weapon World
And he learned a great deal from it about the strengths and weaknesses of these different weapons.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Deal Different Great Learned People Strength Weakness Weapon
Ditto for her countryman the great playwright Athol Fugard.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Athol Fugard Country Countryman Ditto Great People Playwright War
I think [George] Orwell is right. There are certainly moments when political differences appear minor, and someone can claim to be non-political or to want to stay out of the fray, but today is not one of those moments.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Appear Certainty Differences Moment Onwell Political Thinking Want
Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Ago Announce Country Five People Possible Thought Ward World Year
In the form of man-made global warming; one can’t be neutral at such a moment. It’s like claiming to be neutral if you’re living in Germany in 1933.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Claiming Country Global Made Man Moment Neutral Warming
Even [Ernst] Hemingway, perhaps the most intentionally non-political of American writers, became passionately partisan during the Spanish Civil War.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Country Hemingway Intentionally Most Partisan Perhaps Political War Writer
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Crisis Faced Looking Problem Refugee Respond Thinking Writing
Hitler and Mussolini jumped in on the side of Francisco Franco and his Spanish nationalists, sent them vast amounts of military aid, airplanes, tanks and Mussolini sent 80,000 ground troops as well.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Airplane Country Eight Thousand Hitler Jumped Military Nationalist Side Troop Well
No international court can ever substitute for a working national justice system. Or for a society at piece.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

International Justice National Pieces Society Substitute System Working
The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Century Fight First Many Out Really Remade Shaped Twenty War Way World Worse
Its seemingly inexplicable outbursts of violence-is shaped far less by what we celebrate and mythologize than by the painful events we try to forget.
ADAM HOCHSCHILD

Celebrate Event Forget Inexplicable Less Mythologize Outburst Seemingly Shaped Violence

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes