This is a compilation of 3500 quotations on the world of war, from Biblical battles to modern warfare and the nuclear deterrent. It is divided into four areas, with a final short section describing the tragic aftermath of conflict. The author has also written "The Kitchener Enigma".

Collins Dictionary of Military Quotations

Reference

Royle, Trevor

Quotations

HarperCollins, Publishers

A Dictionary of Military Quotations

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Simon&Schuster

Bernard Law Montgomery was a dedicated battlefield tactician, though a controversial one. In North Africa in 1942, he commanded the Eighth Army to a great triumph against Rommel at El Alamein, which Churchill hailed as the beginning of the end of the war. During the planning stages for the invasion of Sicily, Montgomery proved himself to be a splendid organizer and a great believer in simplicity. But he was also known as a complicated man whose legacy remains tainted by his insensitive and boastful nature and desire for personal glory€”all of which can have dangerous consequences on the battlefield. In the end, though, it was only due to Montgomery€™s influence that the weight of the Allied attack at Normandy was increased, and the Allied success of D-Day owes much to his far-sightedness. In the field, especially during the planning stages, he was at his best. An inspirational commander whose self-confidence was legendary, Montgomery€™s military life has proved to

Montgomery: Lessons in Leadership from the Soldier's General (World Generals Series)

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

St.Martin's Press

National Service: The Best Years of Their Lives

More than 2 million men were conscripted to serve in Britain's armed forces during the period of National Service, which began after World War II and was phased out by 1963. Aged just 18, these individuals, many of whom had never left their hometowns before, were put in uniform to serve their nation and taken to some of the furthest reaches of Britain's crumbling empire. It was an experience that left a profound mark on the post-war generations. Using first-hand accounts and official documents, these remarkable times are described in this detailed, entertaining, and hugely informative account of the National Service years.

History

Europe

Andre Deutsch

Jock Tamson's Bairns: Essays on a Scots Childhood in the 1950's and Early 60's

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Hamish Hamilton

Like his equally famous kinsman Lawrence of Arabia, Orde Wingate was one of that select handful of military prodigies who influenced the development of modern warfare.His Chindit campaigns in Burma helped to lay the foundations of victory in the Far East. Churchill called him 'a man of genius who might well have become also a man of destiny'. But Wingate died in an aircraft crash in 1944 and the official war historians blackened his reputation by denigrating the achievements of the Chindits.This controversial new biography is based on previously unseen sources including those of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) which Wingate joined in 1940. It traces Wingate's development as a soldier and guerrilla leader in Palestine and Ethiopia and shows how his strict religious upbringing had a lasting effect on his military career.

Orde Wingate: Irregular Soldier

Biographies & Memoirs

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

General George Smith Patton came to the fore in the fighting in North Africa and Sicily in 1942 and 1943 as a tough and inspirational field commander who drove his army as relentlessly as he did himself. Arrogant, vainglorious and unpopular with his fellow Allied generals, he was nevertheless one of the great land force commanders of the Second World War. 
Patton inspired an unswerving loyalty in his men, perhaps difficult to understand in the light of his treatment of them, which was often bullying and sometimes cruel. However, when the raw and untested US soldiers came to face the much-feared German panzer divisions in North Africa, he gave his men the self-belief to take them on. He refused to allow his army to think that they were second best. 
Trevor Royle portrays the real Patton, a man who behind the bluster was thoughtful and deeply religious with wide interests in literature and military history. Patton's fatal car crash in post-war Germany in 1945 meant that Old Blood and Guts never faced the 'horrors of peace' he so feared

Patton: Old Blood And Guts

Military

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Investigates the life, exploits, and apparent suicide of Major-General Sir Hector Macdonald, whose legendary military career ended when he was ordered, in 1903, before a court martial for alleged homosexual activity

Death Before Dishonor: The True Story of Fighting Mac

Leaders & Notable People

St Martins Pr

The Crimean War is one of history's most compelling subjects. It encompassed human suffering, woeful leadership and maladministration on a grand scale. It created a heroic myth out of the disastrous Charge of the Light Brigade and, in Florence Nightingale, it produced one of history's great heroes. New weapons were introduced; trench combat became a fact of daily warfare outside Sebastopol; medical innovation saved countless soldiers' lives that would otherwise have been lost. The war paved the way for the greater conflagration which broke out in 1914 and greatly prefigured the current situation in Eastern Europe.

Crimea: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856: The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

The Crimean War is one of the most compelling subjects in British history.  Everyone knows about the Charge of the Light Brigade and men like Raglan and Cardigan,  have become household names.  The story of Florence Nightingale, 'the Lady with the Lamp', and the heroic reporting of William Russell, THE TIMES' intrepid correspondent, and the sonorous names of the battles, are ingrained deep within the British military consciousness - Sebastopol, Inkerman, Balaclava and the Alma.Trevor Royle demonstrates how the Crimean War was a watershed in world history:  coming between the defeat of Napoleon in 1815 and the opening shots of the First World War in 1914 it pointed the way to what mass warfare would be like for soldiers in the twentieth century.

Crimea : The Great Crimean War, 1854-1856

Little. Brown and Company

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