The Bitter Land Quotes

“It was easy to imagine longbowmen cutting their staves from that tree before marching off to Crecy and Agincourt, and still the job was not done, still the French needed to be reminded of their essential inferiority – perhaps they were just slow learners. The”
― Andrew Wareham, The Bitter Land

“Langrage was basically shards of cast or wrought iron, jagged-edged, parcelled up much like chain, used in the smaller bore cannon where chain was impractical; it had become much less popular in recent years, probably as much through fashion as logical argument.”
― Andrew Wareham, The Bitter Land