Quotes by : Barbara Tuchman

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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

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

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

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

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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