The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard. -Barbara W. Tuchman

 

The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.


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Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

Barbara W. Tuchman

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.

Barbara W. Tuchman

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

Barbara W. Tuchman