Word: britons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the formal division, the volume is an organic whole, fitted together with the care of a Byzantine mosaic-maker. Here is a historian who deals intimately and knowingly of economics, ethics, and politics, and who is able to shatter the artificial barriers between them. Here is a Briton with the moral and intellectual courage to admit that his nation has lost her position of world leadership. Here, above all else, is an academic man without an academic mind...
...running with the fox. But his services might have been of immediate value. He could have told what the Repulse and the Prince of Wales were likely to expect when they got into those [Malayan] waters-a superior fleet and an enormous air force." There was only one living Briton, he reminded the Houses, who could wear an Albert Medal, First Class, awarded him in World War I. That Briton was ex-Flight Commander Rutland...
...Gough's boats had been operating. At approximately the same time, sabotage of the intelligence officer's plane was discovered. His room was ransacked and a bottle of whiskey in it was poisoned. The first sip of a drink poured out for his British colleague left the Briton paralyzed from the hips down for 24 hours...
Other basic faults in organization-well-known to many & many a Briton-hamper the British Army. One of the gravest is in Britain's armored divisions, whose auxiliary units of infantry and artillery are merely "attached" to the main forces and may be detached at any time. In the German and U.S. Armies, armored divisions are firmly welded units, with tanks, artillery, infantry and even aviation permanently under the same command. The British Army's tenacious hold upon its ancient & honorable distinctions goes deep into British character; but it is no help at beating the Germans...
...crack shot, Finucane got his start as a unit commander when he took over a squadron of unruly Australians, adjusted himself to their helter-skelter ways as no Briton had ever been able to do. Few R.A.F. men doubted that, as lead man in a wing (two or more squadrons), Paddy Finucane could still make his elders hop to his command...