Quote by James L. Stokesbury

“Is it too imaginative to say that if the Schlieffen Plan had worked, Adolf Hitler might have remained a private in the List Regiment…

— James L. Stokesbury

“The wars of the mid-nineteenth century had been short, and they had been won by the state that got the most men in the…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Actually, she had now made it extremely likely that, if Germany developed any expansionist tendencies at all, the French would be dragged into another…

— James L. Stokesbury

“None of the treaties could disguise the basic fact of European life—a united Germany was potentially the strongest power on the Continent. France began…

— James L. Stokesbury

“The fact that France and Britain did go on to win the war preserved their great-power status, but to a very considerable extent they…

— James L. Stokesbury

“This meant there could be no German rearmament; that meant there could be no equality of arms, and that in turn, by the convoluted…

— James L. Stokesbury

“In 1932, a commission of the League of Nations produced a preparatory draft for a general scheme of disarmament. The proposal, however, left untouched…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Darwin had said the fittest survived, and the Social Darwinists completed the circle. The best way to demonstrate fitness to survive was to dominate…

— James L. Stokesbury

“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

“So beautiful was that summer that those who survived it invested it with a golden haze; it assumed a retrospective poignancy, as if before…

— James L. Stokesbury

“Britain and France, honoring their pledge to Poland made earlier in the year, declared war on Germany on September 3. The war lasted nearly…

— James L. Stokesbury