Martin Middlebrook > Quotes

“We were two years in the making and ten minutes in the destroying.”
― Martin Middlebrook, The First Day on the Somme

“The signals organization of Browning's tactical headquarters was not complete; many extra men and much signals equipment had to be added during the next few days – much of it from American sources. On landing in Holland, he would be out of touch with two-thirds of his command unless his signals organization worked perfectly”
― Martin Middlebrook, Arnhem 1944: The Airborne Battle

“After that message of 23 April, the entire South Atlantic was an operational theatre for both sides. We, as professionals, said it was just too bad that we lost the Belgrano.”
― Martin Middlebrook, Argentine Fight for the Falklands

“A Brazilian, talking to one of the R.A.F. men, said that he could not understand two major nations fighting over the tiny Falklands; it was, said the Brazilian, ‘like two bald men fighting over a comb’.”
― Martin Middlebrook, The Falklands War