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No plan of operations extends with certainty beyond the first encounter with the enemy’s main strength.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Von Moltke, Helmuth. "Uber Strategie." Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften. Vol. 13, Berlin: Mittler, 1891.

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Von Moltke, Helmuth. "Plan of Operations: (1871-81)." Moltke on the Art of War: Selected Writings, translated by Daniel J. Hughes and Harry Bell. Presidio Press, 1995.

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It is a terrible shame for me-I came back, still alive, without having won the war.

Shoichi Yokoi

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On returning to Japan after surviving for 28 years in the jungles of Guam before surrendering to the Americans in 1972.

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Yokoi, Shoichi. Quoted in "Obituary: Shoichi Yokoi." Written by James Kirkup. The Independent, 25 Sept. 1997.

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To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

John McCrae

In Flanders Fields

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McCrae, John. "In Flanders Fields." Punch, 8 Dec. 1915.

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The shrill, demented choirs of wailing shells;
And bugles calling for them from sad shires.

Wilfred Owen

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." Poems. Chatto & Windus, 1920.

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Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth." The War Poems Of Wilfred Owen. Random House UK, 2018.

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Slowly the reality of it all formed in my mind: we were expendable! It was difficult to accept. We come from a nature and a culture that values life and the individual. To find oneself in a situation where your life seems of little value is the ultimate in loneliness. It is a humbling experience.

Eugene Sledge

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Sledge, Eugene B., Jr. With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. Presidio Press, 1981, pt. 1, ch. 4.

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Here we will stand and fight; there will be no further withdrawal. I have ordered that all plans and instructions dealing with further withdrawal are to be burnt, and at once. We will stand and fight here. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead.

Bernard Montgomery

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Lord Montgomery of Alamein. Address to the Officers and Men of the Eighth Army. 13 Aug. 1942, Cairo, Egypt.

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England expects that every man will do his duty.

Admiral Horatio Nelson

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Flag signal at the Battle of Trafalgar.

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Nelson, Horatio. Flag Signal at the Battle of Trafalgar. 21 Oct. 1805.

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I am ill every time it blows hard, and nothing but my enthusiastic love for the profession keeps me one hour at sea.

Horatio Nelson

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Nelson, Horatio. Letter to the Earl of Camden, the Secretary of War. c. 1804.

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You must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king: and... You must hate "a Frenchman as you hate the devil."

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Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, London: John Murray, 1813, ch. 3.

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Nelson, Horatio. Quoted in The Life of Nelson, written by Robert Southey. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2015, ch. 3.

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Great God! this is an awful place.

Robert Falcon Scott

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On the South Pole.

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Scott, Robert Falcon. Diary entry. 17 Jan. 1912.

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Scott, Robert Falcon. "Wednesday, January 17 [1912]." Scott's Last Expedition. Oxford University Press, 2005.

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I would not regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier.

Arthur Harris

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In reference to the UK's continued strategic bombing of German cities during World War II.

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Harris, Arthur. Letter to Norman Bottomly. 29 Mar. 1945.

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This will be a campaign unlike any other in history. A campaign characterized by shock, by surprise, by flexibility, by the employment of precise munitions on a scale never before seen, and by the application of overwhelming force.