Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip, and Germans, no less than other peoples, prepare for the last war.

Barbara W. Tuchman

The Guns of August

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Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. Macmillan, 1962, ch. 2.

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