There was always a natural evolution into my personality over the year — Henri Levaufre

"Its not easy to talk reasonably with a potentially insane enemy."

"Who am I to blame for all this? ...The guilty one is the crazy person who decided to begin a war when all may not have been done to avoid it."

"At the end of the war there were no psychoanalysts or other counselors to see if you were going to get out of the terrifying experience of battle without psychological damage. ...some men had such deep ...damage that they ended up in veterans nursing homes, where they were almost forgotten. Others... just tried to obliterate from their minds the episodes of inhumanity that they had experienced."

"When I go to a military cemetery... I pray for them and their families, but I mainly feel hatred for the war that froze their young bodies in time."

"Over the years, tens of thousands of veterans came back to Normandy. Several hundred of them honored us by accepting our hospitality. From them I learned much of what I know."

"All benefits of the sales of the American version of this book that I wrote... will be for the 90th Division Veterans Association, now and forever."