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...Germans. The time: four days after Minden Day, 1944. A British battalion had bogged down at a small stream footing the mount. Small groups tried to rush the bridge. Each time they were mowed down. The battalion's lieutenant colonel was 30-year-old John Child Pearson of Blundellsland (near Liverpool), who sported the wide mustache that Sandhurst's young graduates affect. Somewhere he found a rose, and pinned it to his blouse. He stepped out, jauntily swinging his swagger stick, as casually as if he were taking a Sunday stroll in the country. He strode down...
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