Ocupation: Historian
Life: January 30, 1912 - February 6, 1989
Birthday: January 30
Death: February 6
Money was the crux. Raising money to pay the cost of war was to cause more damage to 14th century society than the physical destruction of war itself.
source: "A Distant Mirror". Book by Barbara Tuchman, p. 81, 1978.
topic: War, Cost, Pay, Raising Money, Crux, Cost Of War