Rick Atkinson Quotes

In battle, topography is fate.

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

If Ive vividly laid out the narrative, the reader will come to his own conclusions.