“Amantium irae amoris integratio est.’” Lovers’ quarrels are a part of love.” — Rick Atkinson Love Copy Share Image
“Lincoln had inelegantly called “the tired spot that can’t be got at.” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
If I've vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“One halfhearted effort had already been made in late March to force Fondouk Pass.” — Rick Atkinson Flower Copy Share Image
“As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Books Copy Share Image
“The more stars you have, the higher you climb the flagpole, the more of your ass is exposed,” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Proverbially, no military plan survives contact with the enemy. That is never truer than when there is no plan to begin with.” — Rick Atkinson Strategy Copy Share Image
“I suffer from the usual difficulty that besets the higher commander—things can be ordered and started, but actual execution at the front… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The balance of the campaign—indeed, the balance of the war—would require learning not only how to fight but how to rule.” — Rick Atkinson Peace Copy Share Image
“They’re not shooting at us, they’re not shooting at us,” one infantry commander insisted, even as French artillery plastered his battalion.” — Rick Atkinson Infantry Copy Share Image
Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“A forward patrol reported capturing a French headquarters near La Sénia, five miles south of Oran, but the office safe yielded only… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“nothing is more difficult in war than to adhere to a single strategic plan” and to resist the “constant temptation to desert… — Rick Atkinson Peace Copy Share Image
“As a battalion commander in France, it was said, he had once pulled a pistol on a hesitant junior officer and shot… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“In a phone call one evening the corps commander grew incensed when Ward mentioned his good fortune in losing no officers in… — Rick Atkinson Peace Copy Share Image
“To make it perfectly clear to you: suppose you lose a hand or an ear is shot off, or perhaps a piece… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“The largest contingent of invaders—drawn from the U.S. 1st Infantry and 1st Armored divisions aboard thirty-four transport ships—would storm ashore at Beach… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“blared “The Stars and Stripes Forever,” clearly audible on the hillcrest, where a lieutenant who was immune to the prevailing confidence of… — Rick Atkinson Confidence Copy Share Image
“Two great armadas would carry more than 100,000 troops to the invasion beaches. One fleet would sail 2,800 miles from Britain to… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Occasionally the ideals seemed more honored in the breach than in the observance, but in times of moral quandary a conscientious officer… — Rick Atkinson Time Copy Share Image
The U.S. Army records alone for World War II weigh 17,000 tons, and even the best historians have not done more than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Draconian censorship was soon imposed, with correspondents advised that no dispatches would be allowed that made people at home feel unhappy. Equally… — Rick Atkinson Censorship Copy Share Image
“Matthew Ridgway to command the XVIII Airborne Corps, Gavin had taken over the 82nd in mid-August. At thirty-seven he would be not… — Rick Atkinson Civil war Copy Share Image
“fifty-six, his hour had come round. He was a paradox and would always remain one, a great tangle of calculated mannerisms and… — Rick Atkinson Paradox Copy Share Image
“Chaos awaited him on the beaches near Arzew. An unanticipated westerly set had pushed the transports and landing craft off course. Dozens… — Rick Atkinson Soldiers Copy Share Image
“In the fall of 1969, a hundred Vassar students arrived from Poughkeepsie to preach peace and distribute daisies. They left a few… — Rick Atkinson Peace Copy Share Image
“K of the 18th Infantry killed an Arab civilian, who tumbled down a hillside with his robes flying about him. Soldiers from… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“trained and ready to fight. “I now have a really intensive faith in the First Division. They are 1,000 percent better than… — Rick Atkinson Soldiers Copy Share Image
“The troops also edged toward that timeless state common to veteran armies in which the men trusted no one less wretched than… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
I think I may try and write something about my pretty extraordinary experience with the 101st in Iraq. — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Few commanders in this war could function without arriving at a sensibility in which thousands of dead and wounded men could be… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“An enterprising shortwave radio operator managed to pick up the Army–Notre Dame football game and broadcast it to the 16th Infantry Regiment… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“CASABLANCA provided Vichy with its best anchorage south of Toulon, and the French navy had chosen to defend the Moroccan port with… — Rick Atkinson Courage Copy Share Image
“In a dinner toast at one base, Patton declared, “Here’s to the wives. My, what pretty widows you’re going to make.” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
