Hitler should have learned a lesson from Napoleon about invading Russia. But Hitler, an egomaniac, thought he was a far better general than Napoleon, who just happened to have been one of the best generals in history.

Russia and the Russian winter defeated them both.

L.W.


"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." (William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830s.)