| Gregory Orfalea - 2010 - 440 Seiten
...— was to spring from Panama, and the 551st was to lead it. Ill PANAMA The First (Secret) Mission There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. —William Tecumseh Sherman 1 Freaks of nature A thousand nurses were heading south in their hospital... | |
| Peter Trubowitz, Emily O. Goldman, Edward Rhodes - 1999 - 362 Seiten
...construction take hold. In 1880, in a famous remark in Columbus, Ohio, Sherman was to observe "There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory; but boys it is all hell." As military historian JFC Fuller observed, "Sherman must rank as the first of the modern totalitarian... | |
| Frank L. Grzyb - 2000 - 334 Seiten
...not yet set in. FOUR IN-COUNTRY There is many a bay here today who looks on war all glory, but bays, it is all hell, You can bear this warning voice to...generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror. — William Tecumseh Sherman POPULATION, TOPOGRAPHY, AND CLIMATE DURING the late sixties and early... | |
| Sandra Martin, Roger Hall - 2000 - 190 Seiten
...melancholy as a battle won." 4. "In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons." 5. "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell." a. Napoleon b. William T. Sherman c. Duke of Wellington d. Herodotus e. Georges Clemenceau VI. WORDS... | |
| David J Eicher - 2002 - 992 Seiten
...later, at a veterans' reunion of the Grand Army of the Republic in Columbus, Ohio, he said plainly: 'There is many a boy here today who looks on war as...generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror, but if it has to come I am here." While Grant, Sherman, Sheridan and the other victors of the war traveled... | |
| Alexander Moseley - 2002 - 280 Seiten
...implying that men become "real men" through fighting. 12 Against such notions General Sherman declared: "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell." 13 Yet the glory of war was not undiminished by the horrors of the US Civil War nor the First War;... | |
| Thomas Walter Herbert - 2002 - 306 Seiten
...such glamorous delusions in language that has been taken as a prophecy of twentieth-century warfare: "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell" (Royster, Destructive 253). Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage depicts Henry Fleming's quest... | |
| James Charlton - 2002 - 204 Seiten
...tears, to ride their horses and clasp to your bosom their wives and daughters. GENGHIS KHAN WAR IS HELL There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. GENERAL WILLIAM T. SHERMAN War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity; it destroys religion,... | |
| Celia Malone Kingsbury - 2002 - 220 Seiten
...It is one of history's ugly ironies that General Sherman's summary of his Civil War experiences — "There is many a boy here to-day who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell" — has been twisted by editorialists and couchbound tacticians into the argument: "Sherman said that... | |
| Alexander Moseley - 2002 - 280 Seiten
...implying that men become "real men" through fighting.12 Against such notions General Sherman declared: "There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell."13 Yet the glory of war was not undiminished by the horrors of the US Civil War nor the First... | |
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