Barbara W. Tuchman

“The world remembers the battle ever since by the taxis. A hundred of them were already in the service of the Military…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The cutting off of Russia with all its consequences, the vain and sanguinary tragedy of Gallipoli, the diversion of Allied strength in…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“In the Hundred Years’ War that dragged France and England through the 14th century, both sides would have liked to quit but…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The occasions when an individual is able to harness a nation are memorable, and Grey’s speech proved to be one of those…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Wherever the Reformation took hold the Bible replaced the Pope as the final spiritual authority.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Inevitably, as hatred of monarchy was added to hatred of episcopacy, they were led to republicanism.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“This country is indeed in a melancholy situation; sunk in ease, devoted to the pursuits of gain, incumbered with a complicated and…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Disaster is rarely as pervasive as it seems from recorded accounts. The fact of being on the record makes it appear continuous…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Persian poet said, the rose blooms reddest where some buried Caesar bled. The”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Cromwell. The door was flung open. In stalked the Protector, disgusted once more with the inability of human weaklings to come to…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Not a passing phenomenon nor an external force, the companies had become a way of life, a part of society itself, used…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Guides were Franciscan monks, sole custodians of the holy places after 1230, who recited the history and traditions associated with each town…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Although the defects of the Russian Army were notorious, although the Russian winter, not the Russian Army, had turned Napoleon back from…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Had all the world been a school and Wilson its principal, he would have been the greatest statesman in history.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Have we,” he wondered, “conceived a merely human project and then imagined it to be a decree of the Almighty?”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“the Home Secretary, a young man of thirty-seven, impossible to ignore, who, from his inappropriate post, had pelted the Prime Minister during…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“The proud tower built up through the great age of European civilization was an edifice of grandeur and passion, of riches and…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“It is a feature of government that the more important the problem, the further it tends to be removed from handling by…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“with that characteristic touch of late-Romanov rashness, the government, by ukase of August 22, extended prohibition for the duration of the war.…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Two firing squads marched to the center of the square, faced either way and fired till no more of the targets stood…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“For, as Professor Turner has pointed out, “history originated as myth” and becomes a “social memory” to which men can appeal, “knowing…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

When the children were very small, I worked in the morning only, and then gradually, as they spent full days at school,…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“Despised as ineffective, they were ineffective because they were despised.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“When at last it was over, the war had many diverse results and one dominant one transcending all others: disillusion.”

— Barbara W. Tuchman

“When it comes to leaders we have, if anything, a superabundance—hundreds of Pied Pipers…ready and anxious to lead the population. They are…

— Barbara W. Tuchman