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Illustrated by the award-winning political cartoonist Chris Riddell OBE, this brand new 2020 edition of the 2011 classic text has been brought up to date with more than 400 new quotations and illustrations. This weighty tome features more than 6,000 quotations from 800 military figures - Napoleon, Machiavelli, Atatürk, Che Guevara, Rommel, Julius Caesar, Wellington, Crazy Horse, T. E. Lawrence, Saladin, Zhukov, Eisenhower, Hitler, Churchill, Joan of Arc, Captain Sir Basil Liddell Hart, de Gaulle to Flavius Vegetius Renatus: 'What can a soldier do who charges when out of breath?' Broken down into 500 categories covering ability, admirals, airborne, battlefield, civil-military relations, competence, diplomacy, doubt, luck, leadership, military intelligence, tactics, training, guerrilla warfare, surprise, surrender to victory and wounds among them, this definitive collection of military quotations draws on the collected wisdom of those who have experienced war at every level. It is also fascinating insight into the lives and deeds of great warriors. Beautifully typeset over two columns, 560 huge pages.