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“We stood there for a full half hour, like so many scarecrows, while they jeered at us from a distance, and one or two of us were shot down.”

Book:Flashman

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Flashman

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George MacDonald Fraser

George MacDonald Fraser was a renowned British author, known for his historical novels and biographies. His works often feature historical figures and are characterized by rich imagination and a deep understanding of history. more

“All this occupied his thoughts when he revisited the places of his war. Tramping over soil fed by the blood of men he had led and whose faces now stirred in his memory, it was his wife's response that came - as if in compensation for too little said before - when he wondered why his wandering had led him back to these old battlefields: in his sixty-ninth year he was establishing his survivor's status.”

War Old Age Survivor

Book:The Story of Lucy Gault

Source: The Story of Lucy Gault

“Console yourself not with the lie that your foe is weak, or stupid, or evil. Sometimes the enemy is worthy. Sometimes his cause is just. Sometimes both sides are right in their own ways-and in the hour that just causes collide, good men will rise up and leap into the fray, and the clash of their meeting will shake the heavens. And their blood will flow like rivers.”

War

Book:Memory of Fire

Source: Memory of Fire

“Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.”

War Media

Book:Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War

Source: Savage Mules: The Democrats and Endless War

“Glorious Leader, we are approaching the galaxy known as the Milky Way,” reported the navigator. “The one named after a candy bar. How silly those Earthlings are.”

War Future Time Travel Consequences

Book:Back To You

Source: Back To You

“When the guns fired in August 1914, did the faces of men and women show so plain in each other's eyes that romance was killed?”

War Non Fiction Dystopia Virginia Woolf World War 1 Novels Books A Room Of One S Own Women And Fiction

Book:A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

“If thieves see us on the road, I think they’ll wait for more worthwhile victims.” Patricius smiled. He held out his hand to help a monk up from the ground. The monk’s bones were so thin that Patricius was scared to grip him tightly lest the bone crumble beneath his fingers. Their feet and shins looked like those of skeletons.”

Love War Adventure Educational Accomplishment Brutal Cultural Lands Early Century History

Book:The Missionary

Source: The Missionary

“Total annihilation has a way of sharpening people's minds.”

War Apocalypse Nuclear War

Book:21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Source: 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“What was safety, anyway, but the sound of a bomb falling on someone else's home?”

War

Book:American War

Source: American War

“Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks - shattering, corroding, death. Dysentery, influenza, typhus - scalding, choking, death.”

War Death

Book:All quiet on the western front

Source: All quiet on the western front

“Připadám si jako slepice, k terá vyseděla orly; sedím při zemi a kdákám strachy, když jeden po druhém vyletují. Někdy si říkám: to nesmíš, nesmíš být tak malodušná, nesmíš jim překážet – Richarde, to je hrozné, co se z člověka stane, když je mámou!”

War Drama Psychological

Book:Matka

Source: Matka

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