The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations

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• The most memorable words of soldiers across the ages • 5,943 quotations by more than 800 military figures • All aspects of military experience from 2000 BC to the present day The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations brings 4000 years of military history to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists and commentators on war. Great figures from history - Napoleon, Ataturk, 'Che' Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Xenophon, Crazy Horse, Wallenstein, T. E. Lawrence, Saladin, Zhukov, Eisenhower and many, many more - sit side by side as a result of their participation in battle across the ages. These memorable sayings, with full source references, are broken down into 485 categories. Drawn from direct experience and elose observation, they cover such areas as the art of war, courage, danger, failure, leadership, luck, military intelligence, training, guerrilla warfare and victory. The deeds they depict live on long after the men and... Tovább

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• The most memorable words of soldiers across the ages • 5,943 quotations by more than 800 military figures • All aspects of military experience from 2000 BC to the present day The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations brings 4000 years of military history to life through the words of more than 800 soldiers, commanders, military theorists and commentators on war. Great figures from history - Napoleon, Ataturk, 'Che' Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Xenophon, Crazy Horse, Wallenstein, T. E. Lawrence, Saladin, Zhukov, Eisenhower and many, many more - sit side by side as a result of their participation in battle across the ages. These memorable sayings, with full source references, are broken down into 485 categories. Drawn from direct experience and elose observation, they cover such areas as the art of war, courage, danger, failure, leadership, luck, military intelligence, training, guerrilla warfare and victory. The deeds they depict live on long after the men and women who undertook them, with descriptions of the humán aspects of conflict, comradeship, sacrifice, glory and death - as well as the problems of command, tactics and strategy and logistics. Whether touching on the pain and suffering of war or the power and
Continued from front flap exhilaration of battle, these quotations make compelling reading, and present an incomparable insight into the realities of war. The editor, Peter G. Tsouras, is a senior analyst at the U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center. His other books include Disaster at D-Day, Gettysburg: An Alternate History and The Great Patriotic War. The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations contains: • 5,943 quotations arranged alphabetically by subject • Compound contents list with 485 categories and sub-categories • Index of contributors • Index of famous quotations • Index of quotations about the great commanders • Index of quotations about the greatest battles Jacket illustration: (left to right) C. Julius Caesar, Frederick the Great, Napoleon, Thomas 'Stonewall' Jackson, and George S. Patton Jr. Jacket design by DAG Publications Ltd Jacket © Lionel Leventhal Limited, 2000 Vissza