Quote of the day
And thus they give the time, that Nature meant for peaceful sleep and meditative snores, to ceaseless din and mindless merriment and waste of shoes and floors.
John Terraine

Born: January 15, 1921
Died: December 28, 2003 (aged 82)
Bio: John Alfred Terraine was a TV screenwriter, and leading British military historian, although not permanently associated with any academic institution.
Known for:
- Business in great waters (1989)
- Mons, the retreat to victory (1960)
- To win a war (1978)
- White Heat: The New Warfare 1914-18 (1982)
- The smoke and the fire (1980)