History Quote by Barbara W. Tuchman

“The Battle of the Marne was the end of the Schlieffen Plan, the end of the era of short wars, and the end of…

— James L. Stokesbury

“By the forty-second day from mobilisation, the war in the west would have been won and the victorious German army freed to take the…

— John Keegan

“This western-front business couldn’t be done again, not for a long time. The young men think they could do it but they couldn’t. They…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Since the world began everybody has beaten the Germans. They beat no one—except one another.”

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“August 2, 1914: Germany has declared war on Russia. Went swimming in the afternoon.”

— Franz Kafka

“Guderian’s troops reaching the Meuse was an absolutely extraordinary achievement, and was due to a masterpiece example of the German Bewegungskrieg.”

— James Holland

“A valise without straps. A hole without a key. She had a German mouth, French ears, Russian ass. Cunt international. When the flag waved…

— Henry Miller

“They exchanged notes, like children. My grandfather made his out of newspaper clippings and dropped them in her woven baskets, into which he knew…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“We broke camp together and set off in our opposite directions: we of the XIIth and our allies marched east, towards the rising sun,…

— M.C. Scott

“Before a battle or a landing, you get a little nervous tension. Once the shooting starts it goes away. You don’t have time to…

— Charles Brandt

“The handful of Germans who had reached the trench had been sacrificed for the stupid sort of fun called. Strategy, probably. Stupid! . .…

— Ford Madox Ford

The Germans must be together.

— Angelique Kerber