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> [There are one or two very good women military historians who use imagination, great study and research; they can put themselves in the boots of the soldier.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/antony-beevor/there-are-one-or-two-very-good-women-military-historians-who-use/)

[Antony Beevor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/antony-beevor/)

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> [“For our purpose, however, what the soldiers did or did not read is irrelevant. For, if soldiers did not learn to fight their battles from reading books, neither is it likely that military historians learned to write their books from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-keegan/for-our-purpose-however-what-the-soldiers-did-or-did-not-read-is/)

[John Keegan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-keegan/)

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