3 December 2020 Barbara Tuchman Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
3 December 2020 Barbara Tuchman No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.
3 December 2020 Barbara Tuchman 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.
