 See that little stream — we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a month to walk to it — a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day,...  A War To Be Won: fighting the Second World War - Page 19by Williamson Murray, Allan Reed Millett - 2009 - 736 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Francis Scott Fitzgerald - 1994 - 324 pages
...since and we'll all be dead soon,' said Abe consolingly. Rosemary waited tensely for Dick to continue. 'See that little stream - we could walk to it in two...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | David Jablonsky - 1994 - 340 pages
...Night when he visited the Somme Valley after that war. "See that little stream," he said, "we could walk to it - a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backwards a few inches a day leaving the dead tike a million... | |
 | John J. Weltman - 1995 - 286 pages
...to war could well be worth war's risks and costs. Military Surprise and Catastrophe: World War I 6 See that little stream — we could walk to it in...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | David L. Minter - 1994 - 300 pages
...Is the Night (1934). "This land here cost twenty lives a foot that summer," he says a bit earlier. See that little stream - we could walk to it in two...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | Theodore Ropp - 2000 - 430 pages
...battlefield, published in the spring of 1934, just before Adolf Hitler's "Blood Purge" of his own followers. See that little stream — we could walk to it in...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | Ruth Prigozy - 2002 - 300 pages
...those trenches. "This land here cost twenty lives a foot that summer," Dick explained to Rosemary." "See that little stream - we could walk to it in two...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | James Charlton - 2002 - 204 pages
...still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side. BH LIDDELL HART See that little stream, we could walk to it in two minutes. It took the British a whole month to walk to it, a whole empire walking very slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind.... | |
 | Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone - 2004 - 268 pages
...since and we'll all be dead soon," said Abe consolingly. Rosemary waited tensely for Dick to continue. "See that little stream — we could walk to it in...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walking very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | Alun Munslow, Robert A. Rosenstone - 2004 - 272 pages
...since and we'll all be dead soon," said Abe consolingly. Rosemary waited tensely for Dick to continue. "See that little stream - we could walk to it in two...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walking very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
 | Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus R. K. Patell - 1994 - 652 pages
...is the Night (1934). "This land here cost twenty lives a foot that summer," he says a bit earlier. See that little stream - we could walk to it in two...slowly, dying in front and pushing forward behind. And another empire walked very slowly backward a few inches a day, leaving the dead like a million... | |
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