Barbara W Tuchman Quotes
"Rule was still personal, deriving from the fief of land and oath of homage. Not citizen to state but vassal to lord was the bond that underlay political structure."
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"Between policy-makers in the capital and realities in the field lies an eternal gap whitened by the bones of failed and futile efforts."
"To admit error and cut losses is rare among individuals, unknown among states. States function only in terms of what those in control perceive as power or personal ambition, and both of these wear blinkers."
"Books are… companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of mind. Books are humanity in print."
"Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from Moscow, although it had been defeated on its own soil by the French and British in the Crimea, although the Turks in 1877 had outfought it at the siege of Plevna and only succumbed later to overwhelming numbers, although the Japanese had outfought it in Manchuria, a myth of its invincibility prevailed."
"Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it."
"Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself."
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