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The surrender condition was tanks, for honor's sake; the defense that followed had no precedent — GIs, surrendered Germans, and Cossacks throwing back the...
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The surrender condition was tanks, for honor's sake; the defense that followed had no precedent — GIs, surrendered Germans, and Cossacks throwing back the...
The creed survives on two tracks: the spoken line preserved by a lieutenant who heard it, and the written Message published that same March....
The record preserves the letter of reprimand, the apologies, the broadcast, and the speech, in that order — and nothing in the documents announces...
The army that built forty kilometers of walls in a month had been beaten at Gergovia weeks before. It dug anyway — and stood...
The room laughed at US Army General George Patton, and the laughter was reasonable — no army that size had ever reversed itself at...
The prayer was written eight days before the Bulge began — commissioned against the Saar rains, already in a quarter-million pockets when the Germans...
The most quoted commencement line ever is a quotation, credited by the speaker at the podium — the farewell message of the Whole Earth...
Pharnaces attacked uphill, chariots first, at entrenched Roman veterans on his father's lucky hill — so recklessly that Caesar first read it as a...
The five qualities he listed as missing — strategy, operational art, tactics, generalship, soldiering — were exactly what the previous hundred hours had proven...
His point was never that aliens must be wicked — it was that we would be the Native Americans in the encounter, and good...