War Quote by Kim Newman

“Squat, swarthy and powerful, the bandit was a mixture of Comanche and Comanchero bloods, revealing the most sadistic and savage traits of both.”

— Joe Millard

“Put two macho groups together and give the first desperation and numbers, and the second truncheons and protective clothing, and the result is like…

— Alexander Masters

“Then, with the barricades complete, the posts assigned, the muskets loaded, the lookouts placed, alone in these fearful streets in which there were now…

— Victor Hugo

“All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.”

— Nancy Springer

“In the city, the ‘Battle of Mogadishu’, as al-Shabaab’s offensive was known, intensified street by street with trenches, snipers and indiscriminate shelling. The militants’…

— Ben Rawlence

“We were the unflinching prisoners of a grandiose make-believe, we who looked upon ourselves as heard-headed materialists. We dismissed the distress of today, the…

— Jan Valtin

“The poets and artists and philosophers, resistance activists, secret scouts and troublemakers, had become, as they must, soldiers.”

— China Miéville

“Two decades of virtually uninterrupted fighting had made even the most dignified structures appear drunken, wounded, or lost. The entire city seemed to affirm…

— Greg Mortenson

“Travis straightened himself into soldierly erectness. The weariness of his countenance melted into chiseled resolve, tightening his chin. “I stay here to defend the…

— Alicia A. Willis

“The sieges of Gvozdansko (1578) and Alamo (1836) tell the true stories of the small bands of the heroes who stood against the massive…

— Vinko Vrbanic

“These were stone-cold men trained to kill—not with heart and fire and fury, not with the joy of glorious battle, but as a single,…

— Lesley Livingston

“Dogman and Dow, Tul and Grim, West and Pike. Six of them, stood in a circle and looking down at two piles of cold…

— Joe Abercrombie