Quote by Anthony McAuliffe

“Belgium’s declared intention to fight was, the Germans believed, no more than the “rage of dreaming sheep”—in the words a Prussian statesman once applied…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“If you're a soldier-- even if you're French-- you're supposed to try very hard to escape captivity!" -Germany”

— Hidekaz Himaruya

“During and after the war, though, no one in the Allied countries wanted to be reminded that, only a decade or two earlier, it…

— Adam Hochschild

“It don't mean nuthin! Phrase used by soldiers during the Vietnam War.”

— John Podlaski

“leader of the Baden liberals, Carl von Rotteck, had cried “I prefer freedom without unity to unity without freedom.”

— Edmund Fawcett

“Belgian Army had abandoned the town, the Germans were on their way in, and we reveled in the blessed limbo between the two events.…

— Bryrick

“When they came into their trench he felt small enough. The biggest thing there was the roaring of Death and the smallest thing was…

— Sebastian Barry

Hey Pudge," the Colonel said. "What do you think of a truce?" "It reminds me of when the Germans demanded that the U.S. surrender…

— John Green

“Following this logic, to bomb BASF in Ludwigshafen would be to mock the people who bombed BASF in Brazil. The Latin American comrades feel…

— Red Army Faction

“The humiliation of their arms and the loss of Alsace and Lorraine made a sore pull on the endurance of this sensitive people; and…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Why is it a shame for me to cause them to die and try to exterminate them, tell me? You did not talk that…

— Guy de Maupassant

“This is what happened: we were completely abandoned. No one had the courage to attempt the impossible. We were slaves without honor. We were…

— Anna Rosmus