The Englishman's Daughter Quotes

“Here was heroism, but here, too, was mounted suicide in full-dress costume.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One

“Villeret, 1999 To save your world you asked this man to die:
Would this man, could he see you now, ask why? —W. H. Auden, “Epitaph for an Unknown Soldier”
― Ben Macintyre, The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One

“There was a village saying, much repeated: “God said behave, but He didn’t say how.”
― Ben Macintyre, The Englishman's Daughter: A True Story of Love and Betrayal in World War One