America Quote by Laura Hillenbrand

“Suicide in the trenches: I knew a simple soldier boy Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And…

— Siegfried Sassoon

“The troops also edged toward that timeless state common to veteran armies in which the men trusted no one less wretched than themselves. Still…

— Rick Atkinson

“Sammy could not have known that one day he would come to regard all the things that their loving each other had seemed to…

— Michael Chabon

“But you’ll always find people telling stories about supposedly better days. You watch. A man joins a new team of soldiers, and the first…

— Brandon Sanderson

“But they simply didn't know Sammy in the late hours, all his virulent bedtime prayers whispered away into his folded hands, releasing his worry…

— Timothy Schaffert

“The most precious moments of war are the moments where the soldiers remember their ordinary calm lives before the war!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“They were having a good time, an adventure. That was January’s dominant impression of his companions in the 509th; despite all the bitching and…

— Harry Turtledove

“At the sight of the Neckar slopes wreathed with flowering cherry trees, I had a strong sense of having come home. What a beautiful…

— Ernst Jünger

“My mother knew a man during the war. Theirs was a love story, and like any good love story, it left blood on the…

— Mark Slouka

You must have seen great changes since you were a young man," said Winston tentatively. The old man's pale blue eyes moved from the…

— George Orwell

“As he started 'Whisky and Gin' and the cheering and the shrieking filled my senses, I thought of Mama, shattered by the war and…

— Eva Rice

“I thought of Sammy Glick rocking in his cradle of hate, malnutrition, prejudice, suspicions, amorality, the anarchy of the poor; I thought of him…

— Budd Schulberg