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It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb. - William Manchester Quotes

It would be inaccurate to say that Churchill and I conversed. Like Gladstone speaking to Victoria, he addressed me as though I were a one-man House of Commons. It was superb.

William Manchester

American Historian

The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capitals only Warsaw suffered more. - William Manchester Quotes

The destruction of Manila was one of the greatest tragedies of World War II. Of all the allied capitals only Warsaw suffered more.

William Manchester

Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red. - William Manchester Quotes

Abruptly the poker of memory stirs the ashes of recollection and uncovers a forgotten ember, still smoldering down there, still hot, still glowing, still red as red.

William Manchester

Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil. - William Manchester Quotes

Our Boeing 747 has been fleeing westward from darkened California, racing across the Pacific toward the sun, the incandescent eye of God, but slowly, three hours later than West Coast time, twilight gathers outside, veil upon lilac veil.

William Manchester

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. - William Manchester Quotes

Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another. [And] if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

William Manchester

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945. - William Manchester Quotes

Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at [Pearl Harbor's] officers' mess [and] are very polite. They always were. Except, of course, for that little interval there between 1941 and 1945.

William Manchester

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As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action. - William Manchester Quotes

As she sallied forth from her boudoir, you would never have guessed how quickly she could strip for action.

William Manchester

Action American Historian

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself. - William Manchester Quotes

Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing himself.

William Manchester

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses. - William Manchester Quotes

The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.

William Manchester

And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity. - William Manchester Quotes

And if you came through this ordeal, you would age with dignity.

William Manchester

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