Geoffrey Wheatcroft quotes
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“Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.”
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“The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.”
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“For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.”
-- Geoffrey WheatcroftSource : "Not so macho" by Geoffrey Wheatcroft, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2001.
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Source : A. J. Muste's statement of 1941, as quoted in Howard Zinn "A People's History" (p. 416), 1980, and later quoted in Howard Zinn "The Twentieth Century: A People's History" (p. 159), May 9, 1984.
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Source : A J P Taylor (1974). “The First World War: An Illustrated History”, p.15, Penguin UK
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“Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.”
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“War has become an affair of machines...and soldiers are little more than clever mechanics.”
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Source : Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.30, Canongate Books
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“Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.”
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“A victory at Kursk would shine like a beacon to the world!”
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