Fortification Quotes

• Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.

  

  Galeazzo Ciano
  • Up
  • Today
  • Resistance

• Sited a third of the way up Dartmouth Park Hill, it had obviously been designed by a keen admirer of Albert Speer, particularly his later work on the monumental fortifications of the Atlantic Wall.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Designed
  • Fortification
  • Atlantic Wall

• 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.

  

  Geoffrey Wheatcroft
  • Soldier
  • Including
  • Wounded