Barbara W. Tuchman Quote
Within the army, field officers despised Staff officers as having the brains of canaries and the manners of Potsdam, but both groups were as one in their distaste for interference by civilian ministers who were known as the frocks. The civil arm in its turn referred to the military as the boneheads.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Within the army, field officers despised Staff officers as having the brains of canaries and the manners of Potsdam, but both groups were as one in their distaste for interference by civilian ministers who were known as the frocks. The civil arm in its turn referred to the military as the boneheads.
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About Barbara W. Tuchman
Barbara Wertheim Tuchman (; January 30, 1912 – February 6, 1989) was an American historian, journalist and author. She won the Pulitzer Prize twice, for The Guns of August (1962), a best-selling history of the prelude to and the first month of World War I, and Stilwell and the American Experience in China (1971), a biography of General Joseph Stilwell.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.
Tuchman focused on writing popular history.