"Patterson-Knight, my "Q" staff officer, who had been at Shwegyin for some days supervising embarkation and was a cons…"

"He would have been a brave American who would have stood up to Joe Stilwell to his face."

"Generals who are terribly busy all day and half the night, who fuss round, posting platoons, and writing march tables…"

"...any Japanese officer wishing to commit suicide would be given every facility."

"For them I had none of the sympathy of soldier for soldier that I had felt for Germans, Turks, Italians, or Frenchmen…"

"The strength of the Japanese Army lay, not in its higher leadership which once its career of success had been checked…"

"The more modern war becomes, the more essential appear the basic qualities that from the beginning of history have di…"

"Armies do not win wars by means of a few bodies of super-soldiers but by the average quality of their standard units.…"

"In these pages I have written much of generals and of staff officers; of their problems, difficulties, and expedients…"

"She became most fervent, continually risking her life by harbouring and maintaining priests, was frequently imprisone…"