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 Wertheim Tuchman" was an United States/American historian and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (later August 1914), a bestseller/best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45/Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911–45, a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.
More Barbara W. Tuchman on Wikipedia.Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
Rome had Caesar, a man of remarkable governing talents, although it must be said that a ruler who arouses opponents to resort to assassination is probably not as smart as he ought to be.
Honor wears different coats to different eyes.
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
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