“They like the idea of recusing women. […] Everyone hates the bloody army till someone needs rescuing, then we're all bloody heroes and white knights.”

—  Bernard Cornwell

Captain William Frederickson, p. 100
Sharpe (Novel Series), Sharpe's Enemy (1984)

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