Quotes by David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

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Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagiou — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces tha — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong. — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familia — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty. — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it. — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the wo — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Gen. Matthew Ridgeway "intended not to impose his will on his men, but to allow the men under him to find something in t — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge. — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War
Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controllin — David Halberstam, The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War