" Through the mist and the buzzing that had muffled Samsonov’s thoughts these past few days, and today more than ever, something quite irrelevant suddenly forced its way and floated to the surface—something from his school days, a single phrase from his German reader: “Es war die höchste Zeit sich zu retten. "

― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn , August 1914 (The Red Wheel, #1)