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This belief was eccentric , but he wrote notes for lectures on guerrilla warfare and
on the need for popular political aims to influence military tactics and strategy
which were far in advance of most military thinking of the day . The
Commissioning ...
This belief was eccentric , but he wrote notes for lectures on guerrilla warfare and
on the need for popular political aims to influence military tactics and strategy
which were far in advance of most military thinking of the day . The
Commissioning ...
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Military dictatorships exist everywhere , but there is no such thing as a naval
dictatorship . What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of
their hearts is the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs and the crash of
boots .
Military dictatorships exist everywhere , but there is no such thing as a naval
dictatorship . What English people of nearly all classes loathe from the bottom of
their hearts is the swaggering officer type , the jingle of spurs and the crash of
boots .
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Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially
revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort of
tactics it would use , were quite beyond their comprehension . At the time of the ...
Even when they had begun to grasp that Fascism was dangerous , its essentially
revolutionary nature , the huge military effort it was capable of making , the sort of
tactics it would use , were quite beyond their comprehension . At the time of the ...
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User Review - the.ken.petersen - LibraryThingIt seems harsh to criticise George Orwell's optimism when he implies that socialism has become inevitable: he was writing in 1941, I thought so in 1980. Sadly, Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher and ... Read full review
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius A Penguin book : Polit. science Volume 6327 of Penguin Books Penguin twentieth-century classics |
| Author | George Orwell |
| Editor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Contributor | Bernard R. Crick |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Penguin Books, 1982 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 7 Sep 2010 |
| ISBN | 0140063277, 9780140063271 |
| Length | 123 pages |
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