Goals Quote by Barbara W. Tuchman

“Billy leaned forward. 'What's he like?' he whispered conspiratorially. 'Who?' Tock asked, looking confused. 'Felix. The Split One. I heard he came in this…

— T.J. Klune

“Within minutes we had left the station and were entering a cutting with trees on both sides, so the horror of the massacre was…

— Alfred Nestor

“Pvt. Felix Branham was in that boat. “Colonel Canham had a BAR and a .45 and he was leading us in,” Branham said. “There…

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“The wounded were crying, and the rest were dying. Jack stood alone in a hallway of mangled men, who had been trained for this”

— Seth Tucker

“During the night two delegates of the railwaymen were arrested. The strikers immediately demanded their release, and as this was not conceded, they decided…

— Rosa Luxemburg

“The two smallest boys were cut down first, bodies bounding in different directions as they were shot from opposite sides of the field, like…

— Cole Alpaugh

“One dead body required two men either to bury it or to transport it to the rear. A wounded soldier, on the other hand,…

— STEPHANE AUDEGUY

“The day they brought him forth to die they feared he might incite the crowd (the man was famous for his eloquence). And so…

— Heather McHugh

“cover the twenty-five in sacks soaked in gasoline. Then they set fire to them. Shrieking, transformed into human torches, some managed to put out…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

“The two males had been standing directly in front of the point of detonation, and both had been killed instantly.  Standing a few yards…

— Dirk Patton

There was the murdered corpse, in covert laid, And violent death in thousand shapes displayed; The city to the soldier's rage resigned; Successless wars,…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

“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