"The Short Victorious War"@en . . "The Short Victorious War is the third Honor Harrington novel by David Weber. Its title comes from a quotation by Vyacheslav von Plehve in reference to the Russo-Japanese War: \"What this country needs is a short, victorious war to stem the tide of revolution.\" That quotation is one of the novel's two epigraphs; the other is a quotation from Robert Wilson Lynd: \"The belief in the possibility of a short decisive war appears to be one of the most ancient and dangerous of human illusions.\""@en . . "0-671-87596-5" . "352"^^ . . . . . . "29980818" .