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Updated: May 21, 2025

I went in to continue my reading of Charles le Goffic's book, General Foch at the Marne. My reading continued, as it were, the mysterious buzzing. I can give, as a rule, but a slack attention to military history, and my interest in war itself is, fundamentally, the same as for cretinism and bad drains. I merely wonder why it is, and wish it were not.

H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson - Waiting for Daylight

If you would measure it as a cause for lunacy, read Belloc's convincing exposition of the battle, and compare that with le Goffic's story of the fighting of the Ninth Army, under General Foch, by Fère Champenoise and the Marshes of St. Gond. Le Goffic was there. Why did fate tip the beam in the way we know?

H. M. (Henry Major) Tomlinson - Waiting for Daylight