A Game of Birds and Wolves Quotes

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― Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

“War inevitably brings provocations to bravery, tests that allow no room for considered thought, forcing individuals to act on character and instinct.”
― Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

“Seventy-seven pf the ninety children who sailed on the City of Benares did not return home. How they must have wondered, in their final moments, why they were being made to die. How might any of us answer their question, then or now? Our adult wars are incomprehensible from anything but the stratospheric vantage point. There, where the grotesque detail of war's human impact--the blitzed nursery, the mother's hysterical phone calls, the lifeboats filled with slipper-less corpses--can no longer be made out, a war can be viewed as a conflict of ideas. Close up, however, war is senseless.”
― Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

“After spotting a plume of smoke on the horizon, 'like a dragonfly flitting over a stream', Prien dived...”
― Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II

“Every god needs a domain...”
― Simon Parkin, A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II