`` But that was war '', I said.

Out in front of our walls the grass was covered with dead and dying men, war shields, lances, blankets and wounded and dead horses.

The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.

Keith Sterling had looked down on the Brahmaputra more times than he could remember, during the war days when he flew over the Hump of the world, thinking it high adventure in those times before man was guiding himself through outer space.

But `` after the war '' was a luxury of a phrase he did not permit himself.

The RAF was Britain's weapon of attrition, and flying a fighter plane was the way her sons could serve her best at this point in the war.

It was a war of nerves, of stamina, of dogged endurance in which the stupid insistence of the British on their right to their own country became ultimately an unsurmountable obstacle to the Nazis, who were better organized and technically superior.

He had a war reputation, but this was the kind of man women like even without medals.

In every war of the United States since the Civil War the South was more belligerent than the rest of the country.

what they feared most was war or political instability in their own country.

One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

And by the time the war ended, liberal leadership in this country was spiritually Marxist.

`` I hated the war '', he said, `` but thought I ought to go because I was, perhaps, one of those who hadn't done enough to prevent it ''.

In June, 1940, Sergeant Helion, with a company of reserve troops waiting to go into battle, was sketching the hills south of the Loire River, when the war suddenly rolled in upon him.

`` It was then I knew that they were making war against Man, the individual within!!

Robbie was a war veteran with battle-shattered knees.

Mama had told her how Emmett's lungs had been affected when he was gassed in the war.

A popular belief grew up after the war that the only time during the Civil War that Thomas ever put his horse to a gallop was when he went to hurry up Stanley for this assault.

It was the hard way to fight a war but Thomas did it without making any disastrous mistakes.

At headquarters -- sufficiently far from the firing line to make you forget occasionally that you were in a war -- Lewis found that the Commander in Chief's only desk was his knees ( and his only comb, his fingers ).

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

These schools of thought centered on innovations, capital investment, war, capitalist crisis and land speculation.

Since the fall of the Barre regime in 1991 and the breakout of the Somali civil war, the foreign policy of the various entities in Somalia centered on gaining international recognition, winning international support for national reconciliation, and obtaining international economic assistance.

The ten bands had four leaders each, and the forty-four men ( Council of Forty-Four ) met to deliberate at regular tribal gatherings, centered around the Sun Dance In addition, they developed the ceremony of the Sacred Arrows, which they carried when they waged tribal-level war.

Fiction of the period also centered on the war.

The main principles in modern bunker design are largely centered around survivability in nuclear war.

Emperor Basil's reign was marked by the troublesome ongoing war with the heretical Paulicians, centered on Tephrike on the upper Euphrates, who rebelled, allied with the Arabs, and raided as far as Nicaea, sacking Ephesus.

Many of the major movements, such as Défense de la France, were centered on their newspapers, and, although their activities intensified, propaganda and the cultivation of positive morale remained, until the very end of the war, their most important concerns.

The practices of these groups centered on building elaborate mock-ups of airplanes and military landing strips in the hope of summoning the god-like airplanes that had brought marvelous cargo during the war.

Other DIA analytical efforts during the mid-1980s centered on the attack on the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the Iran – Iraq War, the conflict in Afghanistan, the Soviet downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the civil war in Chad, and unrest in the Philippines.

From 1800 it was impossible for Cadoudal to continue to wage open war, so he centered his efforts on conspiracies.

Strangely, the followers of the Chinese line centered their strategy against the US and its allies on large-scale, main force actions rather than the protracted guerrilla war espoused by Mao Zedong.

Shaara has said that he plans on writing a Civil War trilogy centered on the Western Theater of the war, which will include " Shiloh " in spring 2012, " Vicksburg " in spring 2013, and " Sherman's March " in 2014.

The economy was inevitably badly affected by the war, but historically it has centered on agricultural activities and craftworks produced by the city's traditional craftsmen — coppersmiths, goldsmiths, slipper makers, leather tanners, saddle makers, etc.

Smuggling: During the civil war, Lebanon turned into one of the world's largest narcotics producers, with much of the hashish production centered in the Bekaa valley.

Most of the fighting of the Cenepa war was centered around the control of several outposts located on the headwaters of the Cenepa River ( see map ), a highland area covered with dense Amazonian jungle, inside a 78 km-long strip of territory where the process of demarcation between Ecuador and Peru remained stalled since 1948 ( see History of the Ecuadorian-Peruvian territorial dispute ).

The culture of the Garou nation is centered around venerating various spirits ( every pack, sept, and tribe has its patron spirit or totem ) that can help them in their war against the enemies of Gaia.

He was instrumental in the creation of the Romanian National League of America in July, some months after America joined the Entente forces ; among other things, the League, centered in Youngstown, Ohio, helped direct the war effort and participation of the Romanian-American community towards the US forces on the Western Front.

Post the war, in the 1950s this area was redeveloped as housing demand grew, and the rural nature of Cyncoed vanished forever, including the development of the Lakeside estate, centered around Celyn Avenue.

The game is centered around a fictional war between the countries of Mercies ( Blue side in game ) and Ruth ( Red side in game ).

The lyrics centered around mythic themes of love and war, featuring repeated allusions to Adam and Eve, forbidden fruit, the atom bomb, and extinction.

Since the civil war that broke out in the early 1990s, the Somali Olympic Committee has been supported by various factions centered on the capital of Mogadishu.

In addition to being a reaction to the realisation that a nuclear war between the two superpowers would ensure the destruction of not only the socialist system but the entirety of humanity, it also reflected the USSR's strategic military disposition-the move away from large, and possibly politically offensive, military ventures towards a force centered on proxy wars and a strategic nuclear missile force.

For the next several years, the war was centered in the County of Maine, with Duke William on the offensive.