"No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting wi…"

"When I was eighteen, I joined the British army for four years. I served in Egypt and the western desert: Palestinian …"

"I returned last week...from visiting the Italian front. I was up with the Eighth Army, that Army which will always se…"

"We have in this country five or six generals, members of other nations, Czechs, Poles and French, all of them trained…"

"The Prime Minister must realise that in this country there is a taunt, on everyone's lips, that if Rommel had been in…"

"So long as I have any power at all I will never be a party to treating the Army in the future as it has been treated …"

"Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules. Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these. But of all the w…"

"The first thing you notice about Mumbai is the first thing you notice about every place the British once occupied, wh…"

"I have not time to say more but to beg you will give my duty to the Queen, and let her know Her army has had a Glorio…"

"Although small by European standards, the British Army was a professional army. The men signed on for a shilling a da…"