Word: crete
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea of Festung Europa-a continent to be held everywhere, at any cost-was probably never much more than propaganda, and it began to fade months ago. There were reports that the Germans planned to leave most of Italy and Yugoslavia, all of Albania, Bulgaria, Greece, Crete and their Mediterranean islands outside their main line of continental defense. An inner fortress, to be held as a last barrier around the Reich, would include northern Italy and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Rumania, and a Russian front running through eastern Poland. But, said these reports, the Germans would surrender lower Italy and the other...
Three terse, vivid pages of description open the novel and set the scene. The main factory of Elmdown Aircraft Co. Ltd. comprises acres of windowless con crete camouflaged in a misty hollow in the South Midlands, ten miles from the nearest town. Says Priestley, "take away these drawing offices, these toolmakers' sheds, these long rows of machines, these workers on assembly, and within ten days the whip is at your back. All the brave, drilled men, willing to rush toward death, all the flags and national anthems, all the patriotic speeches, cannot rescue a people now. Without such factories...
...Wehrmacht had swept the Balkans, snatched Crete, gouged Russia. Now it hammered at Moscow's gates...
...Yacht Squadron. But behind the gaiety was a lot of earnest attention to naval matters. At World War II's beginning Lord Louis had command of the Fifth Destroyer Flotilla. Twice his flagship, the Kelly, was badly crippled. In May 1941 he took her into the hell of Crete. That time the Kelly was finished off and the King's handsome second cousin was lucky to escape on a life raft. Noel Coward made a movie based on the Kelly's exploit: In Which We Serve...
...years. "But." George says, "we're a patient lot. We can go on for a while longer because we know our day is approaching. When the time does come, the Germans will experience a Saint Bartholomew's Day that will ring long in Crete history. We've got them all lined...