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Barbara Tuchman Quotes


An American self-trained historian and author.
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American self-trained historian and author. She first became known for her best-selling book The Guns of August, a history of the prelude to and first month of World War I, which won the Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction in 1963.

Here are some famous quotes by Barbara Tuchman.

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

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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.