Georgy Zhukov (1896–1974) Marshal of the Soviet Union
Quoted in "TOP GENERAL: ZHUKOV" - from "Time" Magazine, Monday, February 21, 1955
“Lee is the greatest military genius in America, myself not excepted.”
As quoted in Life of General Robert Edmund Lee (1870) by C. Stoctly Errickson, p. 35.
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