Died Quote by Manfred Rommel

“Courage which goes against military expediency is stupidity; if it is insisted upon by a commander, irresponsibility. Don’t fight a battle if you don’t…

— James Mace

“Rommel, for instance, was renowned for his Fronter-führing, his sixth sense for the decisive point in battle. He had an acute ability to feel—even…

— Ryan Holiday

“In frontline dressing stations, wounded men of Axis and Allied armies often received treatment side by side, on no few occasions from German and…

— Steven Pressfield

“War is too important to be left to the generals”

— Georges Clemenceau

“No Senior military commander can for years on end expect his soldiers to lay down their lives for victory and then precipitate defeat by…

— Erich von Manstein

It was very strange, because my father [ Erwin Rommel] received the first call at seven o'clock in the morning. And [Hans] Speidel told…

— Manfred Rommel

“At that moment Bastogne was under siege by two of Hitler’s most dashing generals, Fritz Bayerlein of Afrika Korps fame, and Patton’s old adversary…

— Ladislas Farago

“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

Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

— Barbara Tuchman

“It was then, after my presentations to thirty-two generals, that I first began to see how similar the approach to leadership problems was throughout…

— Edwin H. Friedman

“You are the commanders, your men will look to you and act as you do. Let no officer keep to himself or his brother…

— Steven Pressfield

“We have more generals today than we did at the end of World War II, and more troops in Germany than during our occupation…

— Andrew Heaton