Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.
[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 toe...
No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
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 tha...
To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.