Books Quote by Eric Partridge

War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

— Eric Partridge

“British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the world war by their…

— Robert Jackson

“he is every assertion the fucking War has ever made-that we are meant for work and government, for austerity: and these shall take priority…

— Thomas Pynchon

“You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“Love in war is an act of defiance. A fragile thing, born in blood and fire, clinging to moments stolen between battles. It is…

— Dustin Lee

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“When I returned home soon afterwards, it was with a newly awakened sense of what Australian literature was good for: helping us define ourselves…

— George Williamson

At this point in time the war [ WWII] is close enough to still feel hotly personal to a writer, yet far enough away…

— Chris Cleave

I read a lot of war literature.

— Aaron Stanford

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“constant companions throughout the project: Stanley Weintraub’s A Stillness Heard Round the World, A. J. P. Taylor’s The First World War, John Keegan’s The…

— Joseph E. Persico