Battle Quote by Philip Gibbs

“like when it was falling on our position. We learned that mortar rounds come in silently, and their use against us would only become…

— Michael Bilder

Suddenly, at about ten o'clock, a dull thud sounded somewhere far away from us, and simultaneously we saw a small white round cloud about…

— Fritz Kreisler

“It was a movie about American bombers in World War II and the gallant men who flew them. Seen backwards by Billy, the story…

— Kurt Vonnegut

The town caught fire in several places, shells crashed and burst, and solid shot rained like hail.

— James Longstreet

“the millions of shells, rather than destroying German defenses, had churned the ground between the attackers and the defenders into a boot-sucking bog.”

— Joseph E. Persico

“The storm front towered above them and the wind was cool on their sweating faces. They slumped bleary-eyed in their saddles and looked at…

— Cormac McCarthy

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones…

— Ernie Pyle

“When the British started shooting, he simply bellowed the order ‘Cease fire’ in his impeccable English, which they did, until Stauffenberg’s men were safely…

— Anton Gill

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

— Anonymous

“We had the air war overhead, which was frightening, but we were, in a way, getting used to it. Now, however, we could hear…

— Alfred Nestor

“The first sound was the bowstrings, the snap of five thousand hemp cords being tightened by stressed yew, and that sound was like the…

— Bernard Cornwell

“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