One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army.

There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter.

Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes.

Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood h…

He was not only the most brilliant strategist of all our generals, but he had a good political sense. A man of that quality was too difficult for Hitler to swa…

If Paulus's army had capitulated before the end, the Russians would have had the advantage of withdrawing forces against Paulus and against the southern front,…

War is inevitable, and this time, it will be truly world wide. It will unravel everywhere and there will be no limit to its battlefields. The condemnations of …