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Back to 1600. The shadows of the Mexican misadventure and the menacing shadow of Prussia were meeting over France. Bazaine's home-coming took place in that gloom. He was almost unnoticed. Nevertheless, he had absorbed certain lessons that were to become a vital part of French military thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bazaine and Retain | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

Roundup, U.S. soldiers' newspaper in Delhi, India, spoke earthy words against homesickness: "All you jerks want to return to the States because of some woman. This type of thinking, gents, is a snare and a delusion. . . . Now she's probably driving a six-by-six truck. When you...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Advice to the Homesick | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

Germans waiting at home got no cheer. Their radios and newspapers told them to be "under no delusion about the seriousness of the fighting." A German radio propagandist moaned about the Red Army's "enormous mass of tanks" and admitted that the German army's situation at Stalingrad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA: No. 3 | 12/28/1942 | See Source »

Her story begins at six o'clock of an evening in May 1940, when BBC announced, among other odds & ends of news, "that the situation of our army in Flanders was one of 'ever-increasing gravity.' Those three words banished forever the comfortable delusion that we were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Fortitude | 9/22/1941 | See Source »

The conquering Spaniards did not blood-bathe the heathen Mexicans as the Inquisition destroyed heretics in Spain. Instead, Crown & Church at first tried to make good Christians and Spanish citizens out of them. Twenty of the 190 coats-of-arms granted during the conquest of Mexico and South America were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Aztecs Revisited | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

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