The Dictionary of War Quotations. Edited by Justin Wintle. New York, The Free Press.

Divided into three sections for easy accessibility, Part 1 contains quotations on the general nature of war from such acute observers as Plato, Machiavelli, Napoleon, Clausewitz, and Mao Tse-tung, among others. Part II offers pithy comments on particular battles and wars of the last 4,000 years, in chronological order, from wars of the Israelites in the 13th century B.C. To the Tet Offensive in 1968 and the Afghanistan War in the 1980’s.Part III features observations about both famous and infamous commanders such as Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, Sitting Bull, Benito Mussolini, Douglas MacArthur, and a host of others, presented alphabetically by subject.