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Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August Quotes: Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
         

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


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



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