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I have added new material because I have done a lot of research. As it stands this page is incomplete and full of mistakes. Goltz' book is full of unsubstantiated claims that have been repudiated by hosts of historians. Using his autobiography and
Barbara Tuchman's largely unsubstantiated accounts is
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