Wartime Strategy Mugs

Napoleon marches off alone

A clever ruse. How two German officers carried a gun past the British lines.

Sir Winston Churchill

'Frank built it himself. The last football will fall through the hourglass 10 seconds before the Super Bowl starts.'

"Three weeks until the pitch, LOADS of time!"

"That's a very difficult problem to address, Ted, could you restate it as a solution?"

Harry Chauvel & T. E. Lawrence

Kidnapping Lord Haw-Haw

"Tractors, Sir - thousands of 'em!"

'It's for the girl who's in a hurry.'

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

Your Country Needs MOO!

Barack Obama.

General's Coin Toss

"Mother, I'd like you to meet a member of the armed forces."

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

Tea and Sugar Rationing

"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."

'Stamp auction' WW2 Victory stamps on two fingers

"I know at least two people who will sleep easier with him behind bars."

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

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

"So hardly working....or hardly working?"

"It's not a nap if I'm sitting at my desk."

"Well, thats buggered that idea"

Charles de Gaulle

You're too late. Someone else already seized the day.

"In an effort to enhance productivity we will drop the 'O' from 'OK'... K?"

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

Young John McCain, Meet Old John McCain

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

Union Troops Foraging for Supplementary Rations in Louisiana

"... 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."

"Why don't you join the Army."

King George VI