Counter-offensive Quotes
We are harassing them and will go on harassing them until they are totally exhausted. This is not merely tactics of a definite kind-it is a strategy with a broad perspective, directed at definitive and total victory. The Russian defence always had preparation for the counter-offensive as its aim. The Russian war plan here follows the commandmant of Clausewitz, "Swift and powerful transition to the attack-the lightning sword of retribution - that is the most brilliant part of the defense.
Semyon Timoshenko
What a business. You go along your whole life and they seem as though they mean something and they always end up not meaning anything. There was never any of what this is. You think that is one thing you will never have. And then, on a lousy show like this, co-ordinating two chicken-crut guerilla bands to help you blow a bridge under impossible conditions, to abort a counter-offensive that will probably already be started, you run into a girl like this Maria.
Ernest Hemingway
