Epic Quote by Caroline Alexander

It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.

— Chang-Rae Lee

“The battlefields of World War I established the importance of petroleum as an element of national power when the internal combustion machine overtook the…

— Daniel Yergin

“The rules of war established by pen soldiers do not form the basis of actual operations in the field,” he wrote.”

— C.J. Chivers

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

— David Brooks

Have we so soon forgotten those four years of terrible carnage, the greatest war of all time; forgotten the millions of men who gave…

— Frank B. Kellogg

Imperfection is inherited, therefore we all sin, but fighting the war of sin is the greatest war of all because we all die in…

— Anonymous

“The greatest war every fought, and are still fighting, where more people have been defeated and died, is the war within.”

— Anthony Liccione

The man with the greatest soul will always face the greatest war with the low minded person.

— Albert Einstein

“We are fighting the greatest war the world has ever seen, and our likely future is death and ruins, and you are thinking about…

— David Gemmell

Grave of the Fireflies” is an emotional experience so powerful that it forces a rethinking of animation... It belongs on any list of the…

— Roger Ebert

“Surely, by all convention, the Iliad will end here, with the triumphant return of its vindicated hero. But the Iliad is not a conventional…

— Caroline Alexander

“This, the only occasion in the Iliad when furious Achilles smiles serves as a bittersweet reminder of the difference real leadership could have made…

— Caroline Alexander