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... officer type , the jingle of spurs and the crash of boots . Decades before Hitler was ever heard of , the word ... officers of the British Army , in peace - time , have always worn civilian clothes when off duty . One rapid but ...
... officer type , the jingle of spurs and the crash of boots . Decades before Hitler was ever heard of , the word ... officers of the British Army , in peace - time , have always worn civilian clothes when off duty . One rapid but ...
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... officers . After a year of war the regular army was still short of 300,000 tin hats . There had even , previously , been a shortage of uniforms - this in one of the greatest woollen - producing countries in the world ! What had happened ...
... officers . After a year of war the regular army was still short of 300,000 tin hats . There had even , previously , been a shortage of uniforms - this in one of the greatest woollen - producing countries in the world ! What had happened ...
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... had frightened away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval officers , farmers , white - collar workers , shop- keepers , policemen . All of these people had been THE LION AND THE UNICORN 71.
... had frightened away whole classes of necessary people , factory managers , airmen , naval officers , farmers , white - collar workers , shop- keepers , policemen . All of these people had been THE LION AND THE UNICORN 71.
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