"This is the original survival classic, read this book and you’ll see it in lots of recent efforts, read it again 28 Days Later and ignore the sequel."
"Cut loose and left for dead, could you drag your broken leg over rocks for 6 miles while on the Atkins diet (without the protein)? Watch out for the latrines…ooohhh yuch."
"“The rifles, as usual, were pretty busy. The French, came steadily down upon us, and we pelted away upon them like a shower of leaden ball.” Hard to believe anybody survived let alone wrote about it."