Barbara Tuchman

Quotes by Barbara Tuchman

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Historian and author · American · 1912–1989

American historian and author (1912–1989)

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“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”

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

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

“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”

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“Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.”
— Barbara Tuchman
espionage intelligence war zimmerman-telegram

“[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the ...”
— Barbara Tuchman
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“To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level ...”
— Barbara Tuchman
history

“The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.”
— Barbara Tuchman
Sea War Glory

“No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.”
— Barbara Tuchman
Decision Moment Face

“War is the unfolding of miscalculations.”
— Barbara Tuchman
war