E. B. Sledge

It was my privilege to assume command of the 3d Battalion, 5th Marines, 1st Marine
Division (Reinforced) on 10 April 1944 during the final phase of the New Britain
campaign. New Britain was its second combat operation.
Although we didn’t know it at the time, two more campaigns lay before the battalion,
Peleliu and Okinawa. Each of them would be of greater intensity and extract a greater
cost than did the first two. And when the division departed New Britain for a “rest
camp” on Pavuvu in the Russell Islands, we began comprehensive training for what was
to become Operation Stalemate on Peleliu Island in the Palau Islands. That operation
was to receive little publicity or recognition, but it was certainly to be one of the
bloodiest and hardest fought in the Pacific war.

Irvin D. Yalom

An impertinent note! No one had addressed him so brashly in years. He
knew of no Lou Salomé. No address on the envelope. No way to tell this
person that nine o’clock was not convenient, that Frau Breuer would not be
pleased to breakfast alone, that Dr. Breuer was on vacation, and that
“matters of urgency” had no interest for him—indeed, that Dr. Breuer had
come to Venice precisely to get away from matters of urgency.
Yet here he was, at the Café Sorrento, at nine o’clock, scanning the faces
around him, wondering which one might be the impertinent Lou Salomé.
“More coffee, sir?”

Paul Virilio

This essay investigates the systematic use of cinema techniques in the
conflicts of the twentieth century. It is an approach that has never been
adopted before, or hardly ever. Yet the strategic and tactical necessities of
cartography were known long ago, and in the line from the emergence of
military photography in the American Civil War to today’s video
surveillance of the battlefield, the intensive use of film sequences in aerial
reconnaissance was already developing during the First World War.