5. History … illuminates reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life. CICERO
6. Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly found, given and transmitted from the past. KARL MARX
7. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. GEORGE SANTAYANA
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15. Starvation, desertion, typhus, and suicide would rob the French Army of more men than all the battles of the Russian invasion combined. PETERSON, R. K. D.
16. The Russian campaign was the decisive turning-point of the Napoleonic Wars. WIKIPEDIA
ASTROLABE WAS THE IPOD OF IT’S DAY, today few would classify it as “technology”.
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Operation Barbarossa – 1941Hitler decides to invade RussiaBlitzkreig -> all over by late Sep 1941Reasons for failure: 1) logistics – speed left support for front line troops lagging far behind 2) resilience of Soviet forces 3) brutal weather
Operation Barbarossa – 1941Hitler decides to invade RussiaBlitzkreig -> all over by late Sep 1941Reasons for failure: 1) logistics – speed left support for front line troops lagging far behind 2) resilience of Soviet forces 3) brutal weather
Operation Barbarossa – 1941Hitler decides to invade RussiaBlitzkreig -> all over by late Sep 1941Reasons for failure: 1) logistics – speed left support for front line troops lagging far behind 2) resilience of Soviet forces 3) brutal weather
May 1942, Winston ChurchillThere is a winter, you know, in Russia," he said. "For a good many months the temperature is apt to fall very low. There is snow, there is frost, and all that. Hitler forgot about this Russian winter. He must have been very loosely educated. We all heard about it at school; but he forgot it. I have never made such a bad mistake as that."
1812 – Napoleon invaded RussiaAt the time invincible, but returned with 40K of his original army of 640KProblems? 1) logisitics – used to foraging & forced marches, here left animals + soldiers dead 2) resilience of soviet forces – continuous retreat / regrouping & burning fields
1812 – Napoleon invaded RussiaAt the time invincible, but returned with 40K of his original army of 640KProblems? 1) logisitics – used to foraging & forced marches, here left animals + soldiers dead 2) resilience of soviet forces – continuous retreat / regrouping & burning fields 3) Weather
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