"It's damned difficult to give him a nice natural look, like some stupid rooky sticking his head up to take a first look at France." Pg 15 Ch 4
Fergus MacDonald to General Sean Courtney, explaining his prowess with Cuthbert.

"Piet said it looked like he had slipped while he was climbing a steep place, and he had fallen on his rifle." Pg 44 Chp 13
Fred Black to his nephew Mark regarding the death of his grandfather, John Anders.

"The key to the whole thing was here on the Umfolosi - the water, we had to have it or none of it made sense. One stupid, stubborn, uneducated old Bastard - " Pg 62 Chp 16
Dirk Courtney to Ronald Pye and Dennis Petersen after Hobday tells them that Mark Anders is alive and asking questions.

"I leaned that when we was a chasing the Boer. A light in the night brings things other...