Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the… — Geoffrey Wheatcroft Copy Share Image
Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200… — Geoffrey Wheatcroft Copy Share Image
“The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally.” — Geoffrey Wheatcroft Copy Share Image
The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left. — Geoffrey Wheatcroft Copy Share Image
For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years… — Geoffrey Wheatcroft Copy Share Image
