Quotes About Warfare

I came not to send peace, but a sword.

A demonic horde. Upended sacks of beans. A hundred broken rosaries. There are a thousand metaphors and all of them are inadequate: forty bombs per aircraft, four hundred and eighty altogether, seventy-two thousand pounds of explosives.

That Dr. Hauptmann might have ties so far up—that the telephone on his desk connects him with men a hundred miles away who could probably wag a finger and send a dozen Messerschmitts streaming up from an airfield to strafe some city—intoxicates Werner. We live in exceptional times.

To the bombardiers, the walled city on its granite headland, drawing ever closer, looks like an unholy tooth, something black and dangerous, a final abscess to be lanced away.

Artillery has stopped for the moment, and the predawn fires inside the walls take on a steady middle life, an adulthood.

one with a rifle and the other wearing headphones.

He has trained himself not to sleep; he is leading teams of surveyors outside the city walls; his soldiers at the Throat Cutter have launched

Doors soar away from their frames. Bricks transmute into powder. Great distending clouds of chalk and earth and granite spout into the sky. All twelve bombers have already turned and climbed and realigned above the Channel before roof slates blown into the air finish falling into the streets.

This look?" Bastian says, and flourishes his fat hand. "The way he's got nothing left? A German soldier never reaches this point. There's a name for this look. It's called 'circling the drain.'

We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs.

with all the siege equipment for Phraata) travel at its own speed with a relatively light guard.

The war against Sextus Pompeius would not have been won without him

UNFINISHED BUSINESS 46–44 B.C.

the ruins that can be seen today are of a later building), where Spartacus once fought.

Caesar was a commander of genius; he was decisive, brave, and, even in the heat of battle capable of creative thinking

Most of the Pompeian leaders died fighting and their heads were brought to Caesar for his inspection.

Gnaeus escaped the battle, but was quickly caught and killed.

Wanting to prove himself as a general, he invaded the rest of Gaul (central and northern France and Belgium).

For himself he wanted a high command, an army and a war in some field where his gifts could shine in all their brightness.

panicked and fled. Many were killed. Ariobarzanes himself escaped into the hills with forty cavalrymen and five thousand foot.

Hirtius rode into Antony's camp and was struck down and killed fighting around the commander's tent.

To attain this objective, they would have to draw most of Sextus' navy into an engagement in the seas off northern Sicily.

KILLING FIELDS 43–42 B.C.

when he won the command to defeat Hannibal in the third century B.C.