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Page 98
... success of the bakery - a notable achievement , for it was the only success in business that he ever had in his life . " I rented a bakery in the city , " he wrote . " Hired bakers - Mexicans - bought fuel and whatever was necessary ...
... success of the bakery - a notable achievement , for it was the only success in business that he ever had in his life . " I rented a bakery in the city , " he wrote . " Hired bakers - Mexicans - bought fuel and whatever was necessary ...
Page 182
... successful general . War is an anachronism in the modern world , a survival from primitive society . It has no more ... success in war . Grant , like Lee and Sherman , was fitted by nature and tem- perament for meeting the problems of ...
... successful general . War is an anachronism in the modern world , a survival from primitive society . It has no more ... success in war . Grant , like Lee and Sherman , was fitted by nature and tem- perament for meeting the problems of ...
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... successful conduct of the war implied only two modes of action . One was to defeat the Confederate armies , and the ... success in the Mississippi basin gradually caused the Lincoln administration to realize that the Eastern cam- paigns ...
... successful conduct of the war implied only two modes of action . One was to defeat the Confederate armies , and the ... success in the Mississippi basin gradually caused the Lincoln administration to realize that the Eastern cam- paigns ...
Contents
CHAPTER | 11 |
OBSESSIONS AND FANTASIES | 25 |
THE UNWILLING SOLDIER | 38 |
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