"The Mammoth we attacked was not Rommel's after all. [...] Rommel himself, we'll learn later, was not in that camp and…"

"I love a guy who knows how to bitch. Any moron can gripe about chow or rotations, but someone who can get exercised o…"

"One act I will never stand for is leaving our fellows behind. Bugger military protocol, or lofty notions of honour. I…"

"I had become someone they could look to for leadership and direction, who would shield from meddling from above, and …"

"These are armed enemy, who have hastened to this site with one object only: to take the lives of my comanions and me.…"

"The greatest commanders never issue orders. Rather, they compel by their own acts and virtue the emulation of those t…"

"The counterfeit innovator is wildly self-confident. The real one is scared to death."

"Nothing relieves Irish despair. The Irishman's complaint lies not with his circumstance, which might be rendered bril…"

"I could be counted upon to perform the mission they had assigned me, or, if that was unworkable, to improvise and tur…"

"In the end the American dream boils down to what? I'm getting mine and to hell with you."