"War was to be entered upon with sadness, with regret, but also with ferocity."
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T. R. Fehrenbach
Theodore Reed "T. R." Fehrenbach, Jr. (January 12, 1925 β December 1, 2013) was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission. He graduated from Princeton University in 1947 and wrote more than twenty books, including the bestsellers Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.
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