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Quotes About Barbarossa

Barbarossa can legitimately claim to be the end point of a European tradition of operational warfare that stretches back at least to the eighteenth century.
~ Adam Tooze
Their bodies were said to have been translated to Constantinople under the first Christian emperors. From thence they were conveyed to Milan, where the place in which they were deposited is still shown in the Dominicans' church of that city. The emperor Frederick Barbarossa having taken Milan, caused them to be translated to Cologne in Germany, in the twelfth century.
~ Alban Butler
The island of Lesbos has given many gifts to the world—Lesbian wine and Lesbian verse, the seven-stringed lyre, and the poems of Sappho; but of all its products the latest was assuredly the most questionable, for the last great Lesbians were the brothers Barbarossa.
~ Stanley Lane-Poole
Each moment is already an eternity- the Titan Barbarossa, born Vilhelm Jayther
~ Brian Herbert
After Barbarossa and Pearl Harbor, the war tide slowly turned against the Axis.
~ Alexander Dubcek
It was much easier for him now that he was smaller to negotiate his way through his crammed shop but he still tried to swagger past the shelves like he used to in the past. The attempt looked so strange that Scipio started to mimic him behind his back. What's the silly giggling about? Barbarossa asked when Prosper and Renzo bust out laughing.
~ Cornelia Funke
News, like men, traveled slowly; intelligence of Barbarossa's death in Cilicia took four months to reach Germany.16 Medieval man could eat his breakfast without being disturbed by the industriously collected calamities of the world; or those that came to his ken were fortunately too old for remedy.
~ Will Durant
By noon on the first day of Operation Barbarossa, the Germans had destroyed more planes than they did in a whole year of their air assault on Britain. The Russian air force had been neutralized almost without firing a shot. The Western Front's air force commander, staggered at the overwhelming futility of the loss, took out his gun and killed himself.
~ Unknown