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The room laughed at US Army General George Patton, and the laughter was reasonable — no army that size had ever reversed itself at...
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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...
The letter says der Alte, the Old One, not God — and it went to the very friend who'd win the Nobel for the...
The three words were the Academy's motto, not his — what he brought to them was the century's most spectacular military life: the first...
The speech failed; the spectacles worked. The full story of March 15, 1783 — the anonymous Brutus letters, the angriest room in America, the...
He said it in Greek, quoting a comedy; the Latin everyone knows is a mistranslation written 170 years later; his own memoir skips the...