“Veteran regiments in the army were likely to be very small congregations of men.”

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“We’re paratroopers, lieutenant, we’re supposed to be surrounded.”

Band of Brothers

“Haven’t you noticed that the places mentioned in military communiqués are scarcely ever to be found on the maps? The geographers never heard of them, either.”

John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes

“There’s lots of bad men in the army, Henry.”

Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage

“The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that’s what an army is – a mob; they don’t fight with courage that’s born in them, but with the courage that’s borrowed from their mass, and from their officers.”

Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn