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Barbara Tuchman on Veterans Day

1912–1989 United States

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The Hundred Years' War, like the crises of the Church in the same period, broke apart medieval unity.

A Distant Mirror (1978)

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

A Distant Mirror (1978)

Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.

A Distant Mirror (1978)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Barbara Tuchman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.