Battle Quote by Emory Upton

“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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

— Barbara Tuchman

“They have scarcely finished burying the dead from the last battle, and already they are practicing for the next one.”

— George R.R. Martin

I recollected one story there was in the village, how that on a certain night in the year (it might be that very night…

— Charles Dickens

“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

“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

“A third army entered the fray. They came from below, from the shallow graves that littered the vast ridge. Rotting skeletal arms burst through…

— Joe Ducie

“It is one of the many graveyards which are the Great War's chief heritage. The chronicle of its battles provides the dreariest literature in…

— John Keegan

“They are many indeed that lie there, though until now we have not thought of it so. Hitherto we have just all remained there…

— Erich Maria Remarque

I am at war with the living, I have come to terms with the dead.

— Hamilcar Barca

In a wood they call the Rouge Bouquet, There is a new-made grave today, Built by never a spade nor pick, Yet covered with…

— Joyce Kilmer

A broadsheet obituarist once pointed out to me that veteran soldiers die by rank. First to go are the generals, admirals and air marshals,…

— A. A. Gill