War Quote by Pierre Berton

“Who, in Europe, can take this bloodless colonial fracas seriously? On September 9, the day after Prevost’s armistice ends, Napoleon launches and, at great…

— Pierre Berton

Napoleon didn't take Moscow, the Nazis got within 21 miles in 1943, but in a war of a different kind, Team Canada conquered Moscow.

— Dick Beddoes

You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.

— Cassandra Clare

“Tsar Alexander I was prone to tears and he did weep over Borodino, but not at Borodino, as Tolstoy would have it. This was…

— Emma Richler

“Just as in a clock, the result of the complicated motion of innumerable wheels and pulleys is merely a slow and regular movement of…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won…

— J. Christopher Herold

“My first recollection of that day was that early on the morning of September 17, we were all in the cellar with the mattresses…

— Carol Reardon

The decision, therefore, lies here in the East; here must the Russian enemy, this people numbering two hundred million Russians, be destroyed on the…

— Heinrich Himmler

“The ground over which the bulk of the battles raged was only about eighty-five miles wide, a relatively modest battleground but a rather large…

— Joseph E. Persico

“The phone rang and Archie announced, "The Russians would like to see a typical Canadian home, so I am bringing them home in about…

— Helen Goldie

“Next day at the review the Tsar asked Prince Andrey where he desired to serve; and Bolkonsky ruined his chances for ever in the…

— Leo Tolstoy

“A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were…

— Leo Tolstoy