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... noticing that the ones that have won for themselves a kind of popularity are
always a tale of disasters and retreats . ... engraved themselves on the popular
memory are Mons , Ypres , Gallipoli and Passchendaele , every time a disaster .
... noticing that the ones that have won for themselves a kind of popularity are
always a tale of disasters and retreats . ... engraved themselves on the popular
memory are Mons , Ypres , Gallipoli and Passchendaele , every time a disaster .
Page 55
It needs some very great disaster , such as prolonged subjugation by a foreign
enemy , to destroy a national culture . The Stock Exchange will be pulled down ,
the horse plough will give way to the tractor , the country houses will be turned
into ...
It needs some very great disaster , such as prolonged subjugation by a foreign
enemy , to destroy a national culture . The Stock Exchange will be pulled down ,
the horse plough will give way to the tractor , the country houses will be turned
into ...
Page 71
The shock of disaster brought a few able men like Bevin to the front , but in
general we are still commanded by people who managed to live through the
years 1931-39 without even discovering that Hitler was dangerous . A generation
of the ...
The shock of disaster brought a few able men like Bevin to the front , but in
general we are still commanded by people who managed to live through the
years 1931-39 without even discovering that Hitler was dangerous . A generation
of the ...
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