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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 in France . After eight months of vaguely wondering what the war was about , the people suddenly knew what they had got to do : first , to get the army away from Dunkirk , and secondly to prevent invasion . It was like the ...
... disaster in France . After eight months of vaguely wondering what the war was about , the people suddenly knew what they had got to do : first , to get the army away from Dunkirk , and secondly to prevent invasion . It was like the ...
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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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