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Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times ...

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[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that wha...

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War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory...

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No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to...

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Barbara Tuchman

Historian

Born: 1912-01-30

Died: 1989-02-06

Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an award-winning American historian and author.More