Ring of Steel Quotes

“The struggle had been a people's war. The suffering and sacrifice had been immense. Those who survived the ordeal were left with the question of what it had all been for.”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I

“To crush the French army, one of Europe’s most modern, best-equipped and largest armed forces, in less than a month and a half was a breathtakingly audacious and, as it turned out, foolhardy aspiration. How could the Chief of Staff possibly think that it could work?”
― Alexander Watson, Ring of Steel: Germany and Austria-Hungary in World War I