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While hitting one must guard ... In order to hit with effect, the enemy must be taken off his guard.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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B. H. Liddell Hart
Age: 74 †
Born: 1895
Born: October 31
Died: 1970
Died: January 29
Historian
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Military Historian
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Paris
France
Sir Basil Henry Liddell Hart
Basil Henry Liddell Hart
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