[O]ne thing I understood then that I have known ever since, which is how close Hitler came to winning the Second World War. What I did not know then was that Roosevelt and Stalin would win the Second World War. What I knew then and what I know now is that Churchill was the one who did not lose it. –John Lukacs
This recalls the story of the Japanese tourist who walked down Broadway to 34th Street and, standing in front of the world’s largest store, politely inquired of a New Yorker: “Where is Macy’s?” To which the unforgetting native replied: “Pearl Harbor you found.”
