John Keegan Quote

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to display its characteristic physiognomy: skeletal hands, sharpened noses, tight-drawn cheek bones, the bared teeth of a rictus smile and the fixed, narrowed gaze of men in a state of controlled fear.


The First World War (ed. Knopf, 1999) - ISBN: 9780375400520


Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to...

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to...

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to...

Of whatever class or nation, however, all successful participants in the repetitive and unrelenting stress of aerial fighting came eventually to...