Failure Quote by Ladislas Farago

“Eisenhower’s tragedy was that he permitted himself to be pushed into what turned out to be a trap. He had succumbed to General George…

— Ladislas Farago

“the French First Army near Speyer and Strasbourg. The preparations were pitifully inadequate and the losses heavy, but the objective, which was political and…

— Alexander McKee

“Ike was like a giant umbrella. He absorbed what was coming down from above, shielded his commanders from higher authority, and about them to…

— Jean Edward Smith

I think my father [ Erwin Rommel] would have given the same answer. The British and Americans and the French were too strong, too…

— Manfred Rommel

“The rest of that summer in Normandy was wet. They fought their way from hedgerow to hedgerow from Caumont to St.-Lo. By the time…

— A.G. Graham

“Indeed, after the war, German commanders being debriefed confirmed that they had been ordered to stop about eight miles outside Dunkirk. “My tanks were…

— Thomas E Ricks

“Our whole strategy must be to prevent the Allies from securing a beachhead, because once they achieve that, the battle is lost…perhaps even the…

— Ken Follett

“Hitler would later claim that his evacuation from the front had ended the happiest chapter of his life. In the trenches he had escaped…

— Joseph E. Persico

“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

“None of my ten friends, even today, ascribes moral evil to Hitler, although most of them think (after the fact) that he made fatal…

— Milton Mayer

“When the French high command had got wind of the German Schlieffen Plan prior to World War I, their reaction had been, “So much…

— Tom Clancy

“They were twelve days in which world history wavered between two courses and the Germans came so close to victory that they reached out…

— Barbara W. Tuchman