The vast-ness of Russia devours us.

It is madness to attempt to hold. In the first place the troops cannot do it and in the second place if they do not retreat they will be destroyed. I repeat th…

We should have known better after the first war.

We are in no position to withstand a prolonged static war. Wherever the allies concentrate their forces they will break through. For us there can be no questio…

The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland, we would ha…

Freebooter, n. A conqueror in a small way of business, whose annexations lack of the sanctifying merit of magnitude.

The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base the…