Bernard Cornwell

Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles

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  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    the troops divided officers into two classes, the ‘come on’ and the ‘go on’, ‘and with us
  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    That was murder, not warfare, and it enraged the Scots
  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    Legend insists that the Rifles got their revenge by slicing the buttocks from some dead Frenchmen, smoking them and then selling them as hams to the Brunswickers.
  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    ‘It’s like a boxing match, the more you punch the better it is.’
  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    Napoleon was nothing if not confident. ‘I will arrive in Paris’, he told his troops, ‘without firing a shot!’
  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    Did he remember that place?
    In time he would never forget it.
    It was called Waterloo.
  • Arif Shahhas quoted6 years ago
    to filter out what was unthreatening and to concentrate on what was essential.
  • Diegohas quoted6 years ago
    We might know how it ends, but like all good stories it bears repetition.
    So here it is again, the story of a battle.
  • Arif Shahhas quoted6 years ago
    most difficult thing is to guess the enemy’s plan
  • Arif Shahhas quoted6 years ago
    one might wonder why generals make blunders; it
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