Barbara Tuchman Quotes

War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

Barbara Tuchman

To the anonymous reviewer of George F. Kennan's book, Russia Leaves the War, who wrote in the Times Literary Supplement (London), January 4, 1957, this sentence: "We still do not know at any level that really matters, why Wilson took the fateful decision to bring the United States into the First World War," I would like to say hello.

Barbara Tuchman

Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

Barbara Tuchman

[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy.

Barbara Tuchman