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... disasters and retreats . There is no popular poem about Trafalgar or Waterloo , for instance . Sir John Moore's army at ... disaster . The names of the great battles that finally broke the German armies are simply unknown to the general ...
... disasters and retreats . There is no popular poem about Trafalgar or Waterloo , for instance . Sir John Moore's army at ... disaster . The names of the great battles that finally broke the German armies are simply unknown to the general ...
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... 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 children's ...
... 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 children's ...
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... 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 unteach ...
... 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 unteach ...
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