Geoffrey Wheatcroft Quotes

United Kingdom, Journalist
December 23, 1945

Geoffrey Albert Wheatcroft is a British journalist and writer. He was educated at University College School, London, and at New College, Oxford, where he read Modern History.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

Geoffrey Wheatcroft
Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200 British soldiers 1,034 were killed or wounded, including one in nine of all the officers the British lost in the whole war.

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For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years younger than Ellis; indeed, for reasons too complicated to explain here, I was nearly drafted into the US army in 1965. I know many Americans of my own age and, as much to the point, my own class - journalists, publishers, lawyers. And I don't think I know one who served in Vietnam.

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