Waterloo Quote by by Michael Ignatieff The Warrior's Honour

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

“The dead were buried above ground, the loose soil heaped around them. The heavy rains of the monsoon months softened the mounds, so that…

— J.G. Ballard

Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library.

— Pete Seeger

“They were just bones, bones in a box, but their bones were his bones, and he stood as close to the bones as he…

— Philip Roth

“All around them were the bodies of dead Chinese soldiers. They lined the verges of the roads and floated in the canals, jammed together…

— J.G. Ballard

When the first just and friendly man appeared on the earth, from that day a fatal Waterloo was visible for all the men of…

— Charles Fletcher Dole

“We stood in the graveyard, among the tombstones, forty-some dead people and me. A couple of my fellow funeral-goers had even been in their…

— Amy Plum

I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain…

— Jacqueline Winspear

“I remember calling the council's cemetery department to ask about body decomposition in different soil types. Once they had verified that I was a…

— Sara Sheridan

“It was the greatest loss of life in the history of the British military, and many in the West began to portray the “savage”…

— David Grann

“Poor living corpse, closed in a dead man’s tomb!”

— Hugh Howey

“I can't understand why dark northern soldiers and light ones are separated into different brigades. The dead are all buried together in hasty mass…

— Margarita Engle