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Quotes from For My Country's Freedom — Douglas Reeman

1924–2017 England

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There will always be slaves, no matter what people promise and pretend.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

God and the navy we adore, when danger threatens but not before!

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

Even in war it is necessary to love another.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

‘Never speak of a last letter to anbody, doi you hear me? for it may well be your last, if you dwell on it too much!’

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

He saw himself reflected in other people's faces, and the horror and the pity he saw there had never ceased to wound him.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

‘He doesn't understand. The navy is my life. My only life, now. The war will not last for ever, but until it ends I shall stand in the line-of-battle as I have been entrusted to!’

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

Every ball was finding a target; and there were wild cheers as the American's forecastle was blasted to splintered, and one of her bow-chasers was hurled aside on to its crew.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

Seven years. It seemed impossible. So much had happened since that time. Friends killed: fine ships lost or battered into hulks in every corner of the world and across the ocean.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

...the American's upper yards and punctured sails rose above the fog of gunfire like a cliff.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

‘A general will say, "Order the 87th to advance." And if they are not enough or are hacked down, he will send in another regiment. He sees no faces, hears no pitiful cries which will never be answered, only flags, pins on maps.’

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

There she was, Beer's Unity, with almost every sail set and filled so that she appeared to be leaning forward into the surging spray beneath her beakhead. The huge broad-pendant straight out like painted metal, a picture of naval strength at its best.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

Adam grasped the rail as gun by gun the American began to retaliate [...] He winced as he felt the iron smashing into the hull or through the rigging overhead.

For My Country's Freedom (1995)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Douglas Reeman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.