Creighton

“Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult”
― Carl Von Clausewitz

“isolated near Iukhnov, and Kluge and his army commanders shifted their few mobile forces to meet new threats.”
― David M. Glantz, When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler

“The Patriarch Joseph, after agreeing with the Latins that their formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding FROM the Son meant the same as the Greek formula of the Holy Ghost proceeding THROUGH the Son, fell ill and died. An unkind scholar remarked that after muddling his prepositions what else could he decently do?' (Sir Steven Runciman, The Fall of Constantinople, pp. 17-18).”
― John Julius Norwich, A History of Venice

“All forms of literature are dangerous; but in none is the danger more acute than in historical fiction...”
― John Julius Norwich