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... military tactics and strategy which were far in advance of most military thinking of the day . The Commissioning of the Book Tosco Fyvel was introduced to Orwell by Fredric Warburg ( of Secker & Warburg ) , who had published his No Ease ...
... military tactics and strategy which were far in advance of most military thinking of the day . The Commissioning of the Book Tosco Fyvel was introduced to Orwell by Fredric Warburg ( of Secker & Warburg ) , who had published his No Ease ...
Page 43
... Military dictatorships exist everywhere , but there is no such thing as a naval dic- tatorship . What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs and ...
... Military dictatorships exist everywhere , but there is no such thing as a naval dic- tatorship . What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of their hearts is the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs and ...
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... military effort it was capable of making , the sort of tactics it would use , were quite beyond their com- prehension . At the time of the Spanish Civil War , anyone with as much political knowledge as can be acquired from a sixpenny ...
... military effort it was capable of making , the sort of tactics it would use , were quite beyond their com- prehension . At the time of the Spanish Civil War , anyone with as much political knowledge as can be acquired from a sixpenny ...
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