History Quote by Nayan Chanda

“There is no lie in war or preparation of war that can't be defended. ”

— Don DeLillo

“We soldiers knew next to nothing about what was going on in the centres of power. We received so many orders and counter-orders that…

— Louis de Bernières

“Even worse, however, was that the soldiers hardly knew whom they were fighting, and not only because distinguishing resistance fighters from the native civilians…

— Gregory Feifer

“enrage them and escalate the situation? These weren’t combatants. These were frustrated civilians,”

— Luis Carlos Montalván

“Sergeant Skirata said that civvies didn't have a clue, and that it was alright for them to have lofty ideas about peace and freedom…

— Karen Traviss

“Their leader had no real knowledge of warfare or tactics. I was only a stubborn man and that was my greatest advantage in this…

— Andy Andrews

“is a pretty well established fact that many a brutal officer fell in battle, from being shot other than by the enemy. Shortly”

— Matilda Pierce Alleman

“A tolerably extensive reading of campaigns and military histories justifies me in saying that such an exhibition of unsuspicious security in the presence of…

— Warren Olney

“Few commanders in this war could function without arriving at a sensibility in which thousands of dead and wounded men could be waved away…

— Rick Atkinson

“As required by the unwritten rules of military calamity, the initial attack went well.”

— Rick Atkinson

“The actual truth has never written about any war, and this will be no exception.”

— George Lynch

“It was good for troops to know their officers were reliable, and that we didn’t hate each other—at least not to a degree that…

— B.V. Larson