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New Arrivals
Tally Ho Chap Cinema
Military Non-Fiction Books
(Chronology Of Conflict)
"I had hoped that we were hurling a wildcat onto the shore, but all we got was a stranded whale."
-Churchill, 1951 (On Anzio)
"Comrades, you have lost a good Captain to make a bad General."
-Saturninus, c.100 B.C
Military Non-Fiction Books
(Inquiry Of Conflict)
"Extraordinary Rains Pretty Generally Fall After Great Battles."
-Plutarch 46-120AD
"Bullets Can't Stop Cavalry"
-Sir Douglas Haig
Military Non-Fiction
(Book Sets)
"We shall land at Inchon, and I shall crush them."
-Douglas MacArthur, 1950
"Guerilla War is more intellectual than a Bayonet Charge."
-T.E. Lawrence
Military Fiction Books
"Discipline is simply the art of inspiring more fear in the soldiers of their officers than of the enemy."
-Helvetius, 1758
"...A Damned nice thing-the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life"
-Wellington, 19 June 1815 (the day after Waterloo)
War Comics
"Mobility, Velocity, Indirect Approach..."
-Heinz Guderian (On Blitzkrieg)
"To call this thing a beach is stiff, It's nothing but a bloody cliff."
-John Churchill, landing at Gallipoli (1915)
Military Magazines
"You Must Not Fight Too Often With One Enemy, Or You Will Teach Him All Your Art Of War."
-Napoleon I
"Before We're Through With Them, The Japanese Language will be Spoken Only In Hell"
-Admiral William F. Halsey
(Dec 7 1941)
Military Journals
"There is nothing more democratic than a bullet or a splinter of steel."
-Wendell L. Willkie, 1944
"To carry on war, three things are necessary: money, money, and yet more money."
-Gian Jacopo Trivulzio, 1499
Military Modelling & Wargaming
"Men Grow Tired of Sleep, Love, Singing and Dancing Sooner than of War."
-Homer c.1000BC
"Well, This Will Be Easy. The Japanese Will Surrender Iwo Jima Without A Fight"
-Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Feb 1945.
War Films & Audiobooks
"Come on you sons of bitches! Do you want to live forever?"
-Gunnery Sergeant Dan Daly, 4 June 1918.
"Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum".
-Flavius Vegetius Renatus, c. 390. A.D.
Military Collectibles
"Artillery lends dignity to what otherwise would be a Vulgar brawl."
-Frederick The Great.
"When any Aircraft passes overhead, we bury our heads like ostriches."
-A French soldier early in World War I.
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