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“ The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion. ”

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Nothing can stop an enemy from picking wireless messages out of the free air - and nothing did.

~ Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman Espionage Intelligence War Zimmerman Telegram

[Blinker] Hall, operating on the quaint theory that the Navy might be needed for battle and that whatever increased the ship's efficiency was a criterion for change, had continued trampling on the toes of orthodoxy.

~ Barbara Tuchman

Barbara Tuchman Espionage Intelligence Room 40 War William Reginald Hall

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

~ Barbara Tuchman

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