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“What appeared as unendurable hardship to soldiers of other nationalities produced a species of exhilaration in our lads, raised on a diet of Kipling and institutional porridge. Some”
― Killing Rommel
― Killing Rommel
“Colonel L., in whose eyes I was a first-rate Riot Acter or, worse, an intellectual—in his phrase, “someone who reads books”—the most damning appraisal that could be made of a junior lieutenant.”
― Killing Rommel
― Killing Rommel
“Owain of Strathclyde (the Welsh-speaking kingdom of western Scotland).”
― Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages
― Saxons vs. Vikings: Alfred the Great and England in the Dark Ages
“Tutors are usually shaggy, ill-groomed junior dons who smoke and drink to excess and never leave their rooms except for illicit sexual liaisons or to replenish their stocks of tobacco and spirits. A”
― Killing Rommel
― Killing Rommel
“In dress he somewhat aped the attire associated with the name of Charles II, having heard it said in some earlier period of his career that he bore a strange resemblance to the ill-fated Stuarts; and”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
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