Follett Quote by Ken Follett

“If you want to be a hero, the Germans will make one out of you real quick—dead!”

— Stephen E. Ambrose

“...and, without once looking back, walk down the road through the forest. If the Germans want to shoot me, let them. I am too…

— Audie Murphy

“I've got one thing to say: I killed a lot of germans, and I'm only sorry I didn't kill more.”

— Nancy Wake

“Before a battle or a landing, you get a little nervous tension. Once the shooting starts it goes away. You don’t have time to…

— Charles Brandt

“I came here thinking I was going to win this war and come on home in no time at all. Now I think I'll…

— Kirby Larson

“When the Germans surrendered with their arms raised high, holding a white flag, they weren't at all how i imagined them: hard, cruel, tall…

— Mariko Nagai

“I heard people talking about what this Red Army did to any Germans they captured, and this only added to my fears.”

— Alfred Nestor

“If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow…

— Charles Brandt

“Timing was something I had learned about as well. Early on in the fighting, we were moving on a German machine gun nest and…

— Michael Bilder

“The Germans puzzled me. What a waste. Was such a destitute, cruel world worth ruling?”

— Jerzy Kosiński

“Somewhere nearby, artillery thundered. Vast fields — flat as a table, without a single tree — turned any moving figure into an easy target…

— Anonymous

“If you're a soldier-- even if you're French-- you're supposed to try very hard to escape captivity!" -Germany”

— Hidekaz Himaruya