Author: Rachel Billington

Cites

• General Sir Ian Hamilton (3)
  • IN: Glory (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Before us lies an adventure unprecedented in modern war. Together with our comrades of the Fleet, we are about to force a landing upon an open beach in face of positions which have been vaunted by our enemies as impregnable. The landings will be made good, by the help of God and the Navy; the positions will be stormed, and the War brought one step nearer to a glorious close.
    FROM: NULL, (1915), [NA], UK
  • IN: Glory: A Story of Gallipoli (2015) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: Before us lies an adventure unprecedented in modern war. Together with our comrades of the fleet, we are about to force a landing upon an open beach in face of positions which have been vaunted by our enemies as impregnable. The landing will be made good, by the help of God and the Navy; the positions will be stormed, and the war brought one step nearer to a glorious close.'
    FROM: Special order to troops issued on 21st April 1915, (1915), Conversation, UK
• John Donne (1)
  • IN: The Missing Boy (2010) Fiction, British
    EPIGRAPH: The Day Breaks not, it is my Heart
    FROM: Stay, O Sweet, (1669), Poem, UK