It is often possible to decide the issue of a battle merely by making an unexpected shift of one's main weight.

In view of my services in Africa, I have the chance of dying by poison. Two generals have brought it with them. It is fatal in three seconds. If I take the poison, none of the usual steps will be taken against my family; that is, against you. They will also leave my staff alone.

To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for good.

The battle is fought and decided by the quartermasters, long before the shooting begins.

There are always times where the place of a commander isn't back with his Major State, but onward with his troops.

The enemy must be annihilated before he reaches our main battlefield. We must stop him in the water, destroying all his equipment while it is still afloat!

There is one unalterable difference between a soldier and a civilian: the civilian never does more than he is paid to do.