"The outcome of the war depends on the Second Army being victorious on the Somme.... The enemy must be made to pick hi…"

"Enemy superiority is so great that we are not in a position either to fix their forces in position or to prevent them…"

"I always remember my disappointment the next morning when I found that my hand was still on because I thought, well, …"

"Somme. The whole history of the world cannot contain a more ghastly word."

"Then five minutes to go. And then zero hour, and all hell lets loose. There's our barrage, the Germans' barrage, and …"

"It took me about half an hour to crawl to the river. I had to put my mask on at the last, as the mustard gas was stro…"

"I don't know who won the Battle of the Marne. But if it had been lost, I know who would have lost it."

"The driven and defeated line stood at last almost under the walls of Paris; and the world waited for the doom of the …"