6,000 quotations arranged alphabetically by subject 4,000 years of history, from the Sack of Ur in 2000 BC to Sierra Leone in 2000 AD 500 subject classifications An Index of 800 contributors and sources. The top ten contributors with the greatest number of quotations, are: Napoleon with 418 contributions (French) Liddell Hart with 199 contributions (British) Clausewitz with 171 contributions (German) Patton with 156 contributions (American) Churchill with 138 contributions (British) S. L. A. Marshall with 125 contributions (American) Wellington with 114 contributions (British) Frederick with 109 contributions (German) Suvorov with 90 contributions (Russian) Emperor Maurice with 84 contributions (Greek) An Index of famous quotations An Index of quotations about great commanders An Index of quotes about great battles from Meggido to Mogadishu, Granicus to Grozny 576 pages in a large format volume measuring 10" x 8" (252 x 192mm) The Greenhill Dictionary of Military Quotations is a superb source book for sayings on each period of military history. The Napoleonic Wars alone are represented in 75,000 words, practically a book in itself. Peter G. Tsouras has collected over 6000 quotations in all, drawn from every era, and other significant subject areas include: American Civil War: 443 quotations by prominent Confederate and Union generals and others. 'No man can properly command an army from the rear.' – General Sherman Ancient world: 600 quotations from Alexander the Great to Zhuge Liang, reaching from Carthage to China. 'Pleasure is what nearly all cavalry training involves. It is the closest a man can get, as far as I know, to flying, and that is something people long to be able to do.' – Xenophon British Army: 1065 quotations on British officers and men, and the art of war and leadership in the British Army. 'The country must have a large and efficient army, one capable of meeting the enemy abroad, or they must expect to meet him at home.' – Duke of Wellington Dark and Middle Ages: 188 quotations by 35 warrior-generals. 'The noble and courageous man is known by his patience in adversity.' – the Inca Emperor Pachacutec Napoleonic Wars: 935 quotations, including 418 by Napoleon and 114 by Wellington. 'You fear a retreat through Moscow, but I regard it as far-sighted. It will save the army. Napoleon is like a stormy torrent which we are as yet unable to stop. Moscow will be the sponge that sucks him in.'– Marshal Kutuzov Naval warfare: 300 quotations on war at sea. 'It cannot be too often repeated that in modern war, and especially in modern naval war, the chief factor in achieving triumph is what has been done in the way of thorough preparation and training before the beginning of the war.' – Theodore Roosevelt U.S. Marine Corps: 170 quotations by great Marines and 42 quotes on the Marine Corps itself. 'They started right out telling everybody how great they were. Pretty soon they got to believing it themselves, and they have been busy every since proving they were right.' – Gunnery Sergeant Walter Holzworth explaining to Lt-Gen Victor Krulak how the Marine Corps gained its reputation World War I: 400 quotations by American, British, French, German, Russian and Turkish leaders, fighters and observers. 'Newspaper libels on Fritz's courage and efficiency were resented by all trench-soldiers of experience.' – Robert Graves World War II and its prelude: 1100 quotations, by 176 men and women, taking the reader into the heart of the conflict. There are 156 quotations by Patton alone. 'Civilians may think it's a little juvenile to worry about ribbons, but a civilian has a house and a bankroll to show what he's done for the past four years.' – Bill Mauldin The quotations, by leaders, fighting men, military historians and philosophers, nurses, observers, and many others, shine an incredible light on military life and activity, and specific battles and campaigns, across the world and throughout the ages. Back to Greenhill Military Book News No. 102 Table of Contents Back to Greenhill Military Book News List of Issues Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 2000 by Greenhill Books This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com