“Like Charles XII a hundred years before him,
and Hindenburg and Hitler in the century after,
Napoleon learned that whoever fights Russia
fights against time and space enlarged by poor roads,
and a blind hatred in the hearts of the peasants and
townspeople along the line of march.
Russians have not always made good soldiers,
but in modern times when they have defended their own
lands they have been as tenacious and brave as the best.”
Excerpt from “The Emergence of European Civilization”,
pg. 707. Author: John B. Wolf, University of Minnesota.
Publishers: Harper and Row, New York, Evanston, and London.
To any Americans out there who might research the above,
I suggest you read through to pg. 708.
Islander.