Wartime Strategy Pillows

Napoleon marches off alone

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

Sir Winston Churchill

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

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

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

Harry Chauvel & T. E. Lawrence

Kidnapping Lord Haw-Haw

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

Your Country Needs MOO!

Barack Obama.

General's Coin Toss

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

"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

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

'Stamp auction' WW2 Victory stamps on two fingers

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

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.

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

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

"Well, thats buggered that idea"

Charles de Gaulle

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

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

Union Troops Foraging for Supplementary Rations in Louisiana

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

"... 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

Winston Churchill

'Daddy, what did you do during the post-war period?'