Carolina QuotesThese are armed enemy, who have hastened to this site with one object only: to take the lives of my comanions and me. I must take theirs first. No truth could be plainer. Yet at the same time nothing can alter the fact that beneath the fascist insignia of their uniforms, these men are fathers, husbands, sons.
Steven Pressfield Connected to the Carolinas
Source
Richmond Chapman, p. 204
- work
- Killing Rommel (2008)
- year
- 2008
- locator
- p. 204
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