Word: dunkirk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fall of France, Spears's sequel to his Prelude to Dunkirk, tells the story of June 1940, and is packed with as many characters as a grand opera. But the single figure of heroic stature and stentorian voice is that of Churchill. It is a measure of the author's success that he manages to add still another dimension to the familiar portrait. Ten years after France emerged theoretically victorious from World War II, 15 years after its fall to the Germans, France is still fallen-floundering in a moral and political morass. The record of 1940 tells...
...France, he might have seized the "trumpet from the Angel of Victory at the Arc de Triomphe" and blown such a blast as could "awaken France." But Father Pétain had no breath to spare for trumpeting. Ever since the German breakthrough and the British evacuation from Dunkirk, his mind had been fixed on the idea of saving France by surrendering to Germany, and when he uttered the word "catastrophe," his voice "sounded satisfied . . . as if he accepted defeat joyfully...
Died. General Georges Blanchard, 77, commander of the French First Group of Armies in the Battle of Dunkirk-in Neuilly-sur-Seine. In May 1940 General Blanchard threw the remnants of his armies together with Britain's, kept open the corridor from Lille to Dunkirk, making possible the escape of an estimated 80% of the British Expeditionary Force...
During World War II Cassandra's attacks on the government were so savage that the Cabinet came close to suppressing the paper. After Dunkirk Cassandra bellowed for an all-out attack on Germany, even though Britain could barely defend itself at the time. He complained that the British army was weak because it was ruled by the "military aristocracy of the Guards, second-class snobocracy in the center, and behind it all the cloying inertia of the civil service." In the House of Lords, the Lord Chancellor pointed out that the legendary Cassandra had come to "a sticky...
...entered Montreal's Jewish General Hospital, he could walk only six steps before pain and exhaustion stopped him. But Dr. Arthur Vineberg had been operating on animals, testing his own refinements of a basic technique suggested by British Surgeon Laurence O'Shaughnessy (who was killed at Dunkirk). Dr. Vineberg opened Watkins' chest, cut into the heart sac and removed part of its innermost layer, the epicardium. This exposed the enlarged left ventricle. From the abdominal cavity he pulled up a flap of the omentum, a layer of fatty tissue which has a generous blood supply, and attached...