The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century. (Barbara Tuchman)

The social damage was not in the failure but in the undertaking, which was expensive. The cost of war was the poison running through the 14th century.

Barbara Tuchman

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