"No one's reputation is quite what he himself perceives it ought to be."

“My recollection is that most of the crap coming out of the trial via the media had Meyer condemned even before the trial was over.”

“Command is often not what you do but the way you do it.”

“I wanted people who wouldn't become too worried about casualties. One always should be concerned about casualties, but the risk of incurring casualties can't be allowed to affect decisions, unless it's evident casualties will be prohibitively heavy. There may be no safe way to write this.”

“Among the mouldering bones there was the head of a flaxen haired girl. One side of her face was well preserved, almost mummified. She must have been a beauty. But the other side of her face was all bone and a horrifying sight, not the sort of thing one likes to think about after.”

“The meek are a hell of a long way from inheriting the earth.”

“I reckon that the Bailey Bridge and the bulldozer were the greatest advances in military engineering in the years between World War I and World War II.”