War Memoirs Quotes

The American war-writing tradition is a proud one and booming in this era of the Global War on Terror - at least in the nonfiction realm. Hundreds of memoirs and press accounts from Iraq and Afghanistan have been published since 9/11.

Though the publishing industry swears the market is oversaturated, books written by Iraq and Afghanistan veterans and by embedded journalists keep on coming.

'Undertones of War' by Edmund Blunden seems to get less attention than the memoirs of Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, but it is a great book.

Manstein is a man of illusions. ... He believes Hitler will listen to facts.

In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seemed to happen.

This book is not about heroes. English poetry is not yet fit to speak of them. Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all I am not concerned with Poetry. My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity.

I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they had to do was incredible.

'Dispatches' is one of the seminal works of the twentieth century and the most brilliant treatment of war and men I have ever read.