Human Smoke (1)

WINSTON CHURCHILL, England’s first lord of the admiralty, instituted a naval blockade of Germany. “The British blockade,” Churchill later wrote, “treated the whole of Germany as if it were a beleaguered fortress, and avowedly sought to starve the whole population—men, women, and children, old and young, wounded and sound—into submission.” It was 1914.

Human Smoke: The Beginnings of World War II, the End of Civilization by Nicholson Baker