The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.
“I had hope, however; I had been wounded seven times during the war, and once before in this same lung; and I did not believe I was going to die.”
“Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his own stamp of action, takes responsibility for it, makes it his own.”