Hitler made so many errors, it's hard to know where to start. However, Ronald Lewin's "Hitler's Mistakes" analyzes the whole pile, from the alleged Nazi philosophy to the "stand-fast" orders of 1944 and 1945. It includes creating a national culture based on hypocrisy, lies, and kleptomania, the anti-Semitism, the structureless state, the culture of procurement, and the flawed military strategies, which ranged from planning to fight a series of short wars to the Battle of the Bulge.
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"My intensity is intense." -- Roger Clemens
"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender." -- Winston Churchill.
"I am not a hero. The heroes are all dead. I am a survivor." -- Sgt. William Guarnere, Easy Company, 506th Parachute Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
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