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Adrian Carton de Wiart

Born

in Brussels, Belgium

May 05, 1880

Died

June 05, 1963

Genre

Memoir

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Lieutenant-General Sir Adrian Paul Ghislain Carton de Wiart, VC, KBE, CB, CMG, DSO (5 May 1880 – 5 June 1963) was a British Army officer of Belgian and Irish descent. He was awarded the Victoria Cross, the highest military decoration awarded for valour "in the face of the enemy" in various Commonwealth countries. He served in the Boer War, First World War, and Second World War. He was shot in the face, head, stomach, groin, ankle, leg, hip, and ear. He was also blinded in his left eye, survived two plane crashes, tunneled out of a prisoner-of-war camp, and tore off his own severely injured fingers when a doctor declined to amputate them. Describing his experiences in the First World War, he wrote, "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."

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“Governments may think and say as they like, but force cannot be eliminated, and it is the only real and unanswerable power. We are all told that the pen is mightier than the sword, but I know which of these weapons I would choose.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart

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“War is a great leveller: it shows the man as he really is, not as he would like to be, nor as he would like you to think he is. It shows him stripped, with his greatness mixed with his pathetic fears and weaknesses, and though there were disappointments they were more than cancelled out by pleasant surprises of the little men who, suddenly, became larger than life. I have a creed, borne out by war, which is – never to give a man a second chance. It may sound hard, but I have found that the man who lets you down once, will, infallibly, do so again.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

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“I went to Poland for three weeks, and I stayed twenty years, but to this day I could not tell you which season was the most fascinating.”
― Adrian Carton de Wiart, Happy Odyssey

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