European Theatre of World War II

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    I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.
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    The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
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    ... this world gives no room
    to be what we dreamt of being
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    I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
    John Adams (1735–1826)