Books Quote by Stephen E. Ambrose

“It’s important for little girls to know not every story has to be a love story and for boys to know that soldiers aren’t…

— Guillermo del Toro

“As a civilian, I know nothing about combat, the Marine Corps experience or modern man's struggle adjusting to peace after war. I only know…

— Tiffany Madison

“Soldiers seem so durable, resilient, and so heroic in war novels. On the television screen they're afraid of nothing. I wonder if I have…

— Ryan Smithson

“When I was young and impressionable, I thought of war as a sort of romantic crucible, a test of one’s manhood and mettle. In…

— Marko Kloos

“For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the…

— Magus Guidan

“Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?”

— Luo Guanzhong

“As he spoke, he looked into their faces and saw, as though in his own features, that fundamentally they all bore the indelible impress…

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn

“They displayed a sophistication in warfare as good as anything he had ever encountered, and he had been trained by the best fighters in…

— Frank Herbert

“War was simply a slaughterhouse on wheels, he thought. For most men, soldiering was tragedy expressed as a profession.”

— Simon Sebag Montefiore

“War is always about betrayal, betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics and of troops by politicians.”

— Chris Hedges

“War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.”

— Pindar

“It came to him in the night sometimes with a sudden appalling shock that the boys he was fighting were boys he had grown…

— Michael Shaara