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

[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.

No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British Expeditionary Force into the maelstrom of World War I in Europe.

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.

in the midst of war and crisis nothing is as clear or as certain as it appears in hindsight

The conduct of war was so much more interesting than its prevention.

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