“The more stars you have, the higher you climb the flagpole, the more of your ass is exposed,” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“Captain Evelyn Waugh of the British Army wrote of the Stuka, “Like all things German, it is very efficient and goes on… — Rick Atkinson British army Copy Share Image
“Derrien had issued his battle cry, he annulled it by order of Vichy. “November 8, we fight everybody,” he wrote privately. “November… — Rick Atkinson Battle cry Copy Share Image
“Allen left the academy, graduated from Catholic University, and took a commission in 1912. Wounded at Saint-Mihiel in 1918 and carried from… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“They believed that overpowering the feeble French meant something. They believed in the righteousness of their cause, the inevitability of their victory,… — Rick Atkinson Justice Copy Share Image
“Like any army moving from war to peace, this Army was entering a period in which it would search high and low… — Rick Atkinson Peace Copy Share Image
“Even Colonel Lang, watching the Americans from the other side of Djebel Naemia, had been surprised by their timid initial approach to… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to… — Rick Atkinson After 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
“One halfhearted effort had already been made in late March to force Fondouk Pass.” — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
The spring of 1942 was given over to a very impassioned, strategic debate about where we should first attack in counterpunching against… — Rick Atkinson About Copy Share Image
“pump,” Marshall added. Brooke had spotted a whimbrel, a yellow wagtail, and five small owls. He had also seen this American argument… — Rick Atkinson War Room Copy Share Image
“more than 300 other ships bound for Algeria steamed from anchorages on the Clyde and along England’s west coast. For all these… — Rick Atkinson Royal navy Copy Share Image
“One man who did not understand was the New Zealanders’ legendary commander, Lieutenant General Bernard C. Freyberg. English-born but raised in New… — Rick Atkinson British empire Copy Share Image
There is something within our biological structure that screams out and says it is morally wrong for the old to outlive the… — Rick Atkinson Make sense Copy Share Image
“Linguists holding bullhorns hollered, “A bas les Boches! A bas les Marcon! Down with the Boches! Down with the Macaronis! Vive la… — Rick Atkinson American flag Copy Share Image
I was born in Munich, and my father was stationed in Salzburg. For the first three years of my life, I lived… — Rick Atkinson American army 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 Strategy Copy Share Image
If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions. — Rick Atkinson Books 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 Copy Share Image
“Shortly after sunset on November 5, the convoy began to swing east, past the Pillars of Hercules. Soon the fleet would split… — Rick Atkinson Copy Share Image
“TWENTY-SEVEN acres of headstones fill the American military cemetery at Carthage, Tunisia. There are no obelisks, no tombs, no ostentatious monuments, just… — Rick Atkinson American military Copy Share Image
