Quotes by Nigel Hamilton

The story of FDR as U.S. Commander in Chief is a heroic war story of a president who had already overcome great adversity in facing polio but who went on to take the reins of our armed forces in the greatest conflagration in human history - on our behalf.

I once wrote that Lord Moran, Churchills doctor, had doctored his diaries as well as his famous patient. That was true but unfair. Although their authenticity as contemporary, daily accounts is often questionable, the observations are quite wonderful.

Weve sweated and torn out our hair trying to reconstruct our chosen lives, to fashion them like literary sculptures, at once monumental and yet human. Weve applied all of our intelligence, our empathy, our critical faculties, our compassion - and we think, in our delusion, that its still 1960, and our work is going to get noticed.

Thanksgiving is a time of togetherness and gratitude.

The moral was, in time of anarchy, tough leadership is the only solution - even though the collateral damage may be heartbreaking. Mrs. Thatchers strident, take-no prisoners approach was in some ways repugnant, but it was surely necessary.

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washingtons birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

Thats the miracle of Amazon! Its like Internet dating. In the early days, you could get slimed as an author on Amazon by someone bearing a grudge, or jealous, or whatever. And because there were so few reviews posted, this stank.