Word: blitzkrieg
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...change of dramatic color: no longer a generous desert fighter, he is now an arrogant and not very likable character.* The Desert Fox focused on the battle of El Alamein, but The Desert Rats flashes back some 18 months to depict the 1941 siege of Tobruk, where the Nazi blitzkrieg was stopped for the first time. Against this factual background, the scenarists have set a fictional plot about a tough British captain (Richard Burton) with a soft spot in his heart for his alcoholic old ex-schoolteacher (Robert Newton), a private with the Australian 9th Division...
...during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazi Great Rehearsal, one shows a dwarf in military breeches whipping a group of nude workers. In the other, some soldiers with poison gas and flame throwers face others armed with but swords and shields in what seems an acute prognostication of the Blitzkrieg...
...first illusion to vanish was that Russia is irresistible. Russia may be strong militarily, and ready to launch a blitzkrieg on the German pattern, but I do not believe she could again - and this time without Lease-Lend aid - mount anything like a sustained offensive...
...with a right to the jaw. The conclusion drawn from the first nine rounds--that Robinson could not hurt the champion--is proved wrong in an astonishing second. Every spectator is up on his feet, screaming. Turpin is up again, caught against the ropes, defenseless, sagging, victim of a blitzkrieg. The punches keep coming and coming and still he stays up, kept up, perhaps by the blows themselves, which knock him back against the ropes. The standee with the bet is transformed horribly. His voice is raw with excitement, shouting for the kill...
...with a right to the jaw. The conclusion drawn from the first nine rounds--that Robinson could not hurt the champion--is proved wrong in an astonishing second. Every spectator is up on his feet, screaming. Turpin is up again, caught against the ropes, defenseless, sagging, victim of a blitzkrieg. The punches keep coming and coming and still he stays up, kept up, perhaps by the blows themselves, which knock him back against the ropes. The standee with the bet is transformed horribly. His voice is raw with excitement, shouting for the kill...