The Bloody Red Baron: 1918 (Kim Newman) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 3)

To Paul McAuley

'It'll be over by Christmas.'

Mechanical contrivances have been greatly exaggerated in comparison with the value of infantry. There must also be artillery and cavalry as well!

... Each war has certain special conditions so some modification of organisation will be necessary but if our principles are sound, these will be few and unimportant. The longer the War has gone on, the more satisfactory do the principles of our training manuals appear.

Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig, 1918

This little book gives one a useful insight into the enemy's methods, and more than a little respect for at any rate some of those whom we are at present endeavouring to kill.

C.G. Grey, Preface to the first British edition of Manfred von Richthofen's The Red Air Fighter, 1918