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“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a…

— Ladislas Farago

“The others had been driven into the desert to die of thirst (the Germans poisoned the waterholes), were shot, or—to economize on bullets—bayoneted or…

— Adam Hochschild

“Before a battle or a landing, you get a little nervous tension. Once the shooting starts it goes away. You don’t have time to…

— Charles Brandt

“Germany had bombed Britain, and Britain had bombed back, and had gotten pretty good at it. In 1943 they had started a firestorm that…

— Lee Child

“The train, I was later told by my mother, only had about ten carriages to it, and there were hundreds of people fighting to…

— Alfred Nestor

“about the German boy's throat and tried to strangle him and to stop another dreadful cry. The second officer made haste. He thrust his…

— Philip Gibbs

“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“German resistance continued to present a hodgepodge of fanaticism amid disorder. A British patrol entering a deserted village east of Valenciennes in the northern…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Timing was something I had learned about as well. Early on in the fighting, we were moving on a German machine gun nest and…

— Michael Bilder

The British Army should be a projectile to be fired by the British Navy.

— Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon

“With a grunt, the gunman ripped off the goggles and fumbled for the hilt of a wicked-looking combat knife, swearing under his breath. Marc…

— James Swallow

“like when it was falling on our position. We learned that mortar rounds come in silently, and their use against us would only become…

— Michael Bilder