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Barbara Tuchman

Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others.

Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August, Chapter 2, “Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with His Sleeve” (p. 22).

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