The street is no longer measured by meters but by corpses ... Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching howling bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones cannot bear it for long; only men endure.
Max HastingsStichwörter: wwii war endurance russia stalingrad wehrmacht
People beleived that the most devastating part of a war are the corpses with their guts out in the open, the puddles of blood, and all that you can capture at first glance. But sometimes the horror is off to the side, in the lost look on the face of a woman who's just been raped, as she limps away alone within the ruins, trying to keep her head down. Gerda and Capa were not aware of this yet. They were too young. And that was their first conflict. They still believed war had its romantic side.
Susana FortesStichwörter: war romance youth twentysomethings
War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly.
Aminatta FornaStichwörter: war suicide survival
Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.
Paul FussellStichwörter: war soldiers war-crimes ptsd psychological-damage
There was a war all over the world
and all over the world
was grief.
And yet I whispered into jewelled ears
verses of love.
It makes me feel ashamed.
But no, not really.
If your opponent is of choleric temper, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant.
Sun TzuStichwörter: war strategy business
If his forces are united, separate them.
Sun TzuStichwörter: war strategy business
Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
Sun TzuStichwörter: war strategy business
These military devices, leading to victory, must not be divulged beforehand.
Sun TzuStichwörter: war strategy business
do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat
Sun TzuStichwörter: war strategy business
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