Honor wears different coats to different eyes.

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• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  War is the unfolding of miscalculations.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Diplomacy means all the wicked devices of the Old World, spheres of influence, balances of power, s

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Every successful revolution puts on in time the robes of the tyrant it has deposed.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come t

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  The writer's object is - or should be - to hold the reader's attention.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.

• Barbara W. Tuchman:

  I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning until the end.