Wartime Analyst Gifts

You'll Miss Us

"Tractors, Sir - thousands of 'em!"

Sir Winston Churchill

'Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Just look at that card Hans Greber and we have haven't been shot at all day.'

Kidnapping Lord Haw-Haw

"You can let that go till later, Harris."

Barack Obama.

"Mrs. Barnes is to have a complete head-to-toe – she's to be the victim in a bandage-instruction class."

Your Country Needs MOO!

Siegfried Sassoon

Napoleon marches off alone

General's Coin Toss

"…And what do you think the cracker might represent?"

'I'm not sure if it's the programs or the commercials, but one is supposed to be a lot worse than the other.'

'These days,' she says, 'nothing gets a rise out of him.'

Get Ahead

The real reason the Christmas Truce didn't last.

"Most of the time, war...it makes no sense. A lot of times, we'd hear artillery whistling over our heads. But really, you can't move. You just wait...and wait...until it hits...and hope it isn't hitting you."

Tea and Sugar Rationing

'And remind your father to take out the chicken from the freezer and don't forget to do your homework.'

'Stamp auction' WW2 Victory stamps on two fingers

For the War Inventions Board. The Armoured Bayonet-curler for the Spoiling the Temper of the Enemy's Steel

British patent (applied for) A Trained Dog of war Drawing the Enemy's Fire.

The unknown soldier: war grave.

The Trench-Sealer

"Well, thats buggered that idea"

Charles de Gaulle

"Well, then why don't the British just borrow Major Eliot from the Herald Tribune."

Soldiers

"... and so, gentlemen, I have to report that, despite the not inconsiderable complications and burdens presented by the war, the income of the North American Broadcasting Company showed a net increase of two per cent."

"We didn't have telly in wartime, we had to make our own violence."

"The luck didn't last. A shell finally got me near Batogne. Honestly, I didn't know I was injured until I reached down and found a hole in my leg. It makes you realize things."

Union Troops Foraging for Supplementary Rations in Louisiana

Young John McCain, Meet Old John McCain

"It's blank because we haven't found a new war yet."