The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943-1944 (The Liberation Trilogy Book 2)

by Rick Atkinson

Nationwide, the speed limit was thirty-five miles per hour, known as “victory speed.”

“If you charge hard enough at death,” he claimed, “it will get out of your way.”

“Seldom in history,” a Royal Navy officer observed, “can a people have celebrated so hilariously the complete defeat of their country.”

“War, my friends, is a silly business. War is the craziest thing I ever heard of.”

But Buckley, who had been in Warsaw on September 1, 1939, wrote, “I remember from the evidence of my own eyes who was responsible for letting loose this terrible weapon.”

thank Gen. David D. McKiernan, commander of the U.S. Army in Europe,