3 Quotes by Geoffrey Wheatcroft

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.

The great twin political problems of the age are the brutality of the right, and the dishonesty of the left.

The story of the past generation has been that the right has won politically and the left has won culturally.