All Quotes

• Winston Churchill: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few”
• Liddell Hart: “[the Luftwaffe]...it had not succeeded in its object of destroying the RAF’s fighter strength and the British people’s morale.”
• Richards: “[The Battle of Britain]...was a major turning point as it stopped Hitler’s path of conquest”
• Richards: “...By earning Britain a great breathing space...they made possible the final victory and the liberation of Europe from the Nazi terror.”
• Christian: “...A longer, more savage war enabled Russia to exploit to the full its huge reserves of raw materials and labour.”
• Calvocoressi: “If Hitler could not beat the Russians in six months he could not beat them at all. He had not prepared for and could not win a long war.”
• Generaleutenant Adolf Galand: “In my opinion, it was the Allied bombing of our oil industries that had the greatest effect on the German war potential.”
• General Fieldmarshall Karl Gerd von Rundstedt: “Second, [factor for German defeat] the lack of motor fuel, oil and gas...”
• William S Shirer: “The initiative had passed from Hitler’s hands, never to return.”
• Ian Carter: “Without D-Day...the war might have continued indefinitely.”
• William S Shirer: “...a great and terrible Nazi dream was destroyed.”