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In the World War [WW1] nothing was more dreadful to witness than a chain of men starting with a battalion commander and ending with an army commander sitting in telephone boxes, improvised or actual, talking, talking, talking, in place of leading, leading, leading.

J. F. C. Fuller

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J. F. C. Fuller
Age: 87 †
Born: 1878
Born: September 1
Died: 1966
Died: February 10
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Military Historian
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Non-Fiction Writer
Chichester
West Sussex
John Frederick Charles Fuller
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