"In Ceylon I had a black nurse who wet - nursed me. Years later I was told by my father that she said of me:"This boy …"

"The most important thing, my father told me, which I have never forgotten, and which I have often put unto practice w…"

"I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years bet…"

"I looked for certain attributes in a soldier. I know the modern method is to put the attributes into a computer and s…"

"I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, bu…"

"Generals do not always run wars the way they would like to, nor the troops under them."

"Perhaps if Hitler had had the wisdom to withdraw his troops and prepare for the defense of his own country, Germany, …"

"Some more of Monty's boys came up, soon after Malone had left but they, too, spent their time getting shelled by the …"

"Among the mouldering bones there was the head of a flaxen haired girl. One side of her face was well preserved, almos…"

"I believe that one can't command sitting on one's ass in the rear. One has to up among the forward brigade commanders…"