Death-rates Quote by J. Christopher Herold

“German soldiers look as if they despised you, but French soldiers as if they despised you and themselves even more that you.”

— G.K. Chesterton

More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is…

— Winston Churchill

“He'd been a successful soldier, as these things went; he'd generally been on the winning side, and had killed more of the enemy by…

— Terry Pratchett

“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

“General Jacques de Bollardière, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as well as…

— Alistair Horne

“The soldier—that is, the great soldier—of to-day is not a romantic animal, dashing at forlorn hopes, animated by frantic sentiment, full of fancies as…

— Walter Bagehot

A few regular troops from old France, weakened by hunger and sickness, who, when fresh, were unable to withstand the British soldiers, are their…

— James Wolfe

“To the Frenchmen risking their lives to drive the English from Scotland, such a feud seemed no doubt an ill-timed indulgence. To Buccleuch, any…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“The popular image [in England] of Bonaparte as a blood-stained tyrant and bandit was admittedly exaggerated, but instinct told even the most radical among…

— J. Christopher Herold

“Who today reflects that in the Battle of the Somme alone, where every man was an eager volunteer of ‘Kitchener’s Army’, more British lives…

— Arthur Stanley Gould Lee

“Britain, in the memorable phrase of another young State Department officer, “was like a soldier wounded in war who, now that the fighting was…

— Charles L. Mee Jr

“The armies of Europe are machines; the men are brave and the officers capable; but the majority of the soldiers in most of the…

— Ulysses S. Grant