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...British First and the French First, Seventh and Ninth Armies had been destroyed, save for 337,000 beaten men evacuated from Dunkirk; in 1944, the German Seventh Army of up to 500,000 had been destroyed, kit & kaboodle...
...Vilna, they were less than 100 miles from East Prussia. If the Germans north of the gap between Vilna and Konigsberg failed to get down through it before the Russians closed it, there would be no Dunkirk, no escape by sea, for them...
...World War I he rose to lieutenant colonel and won the D.S.C. World War II brought him rapid promotion and com mand of a division in France. The Germans chased him out at Dunkirk. After the escape of the B.E.F., Monty was as signed to a defense command. Fate tapped him for glory in Africa as a second-choice man, after another general, William...
...divisions that rate highly with Monty are the soth Northumbrians and the 51st Highlanders, which were wiped out in glory before Dunkirk, were revivified to spearhead the breakthrough at El Alamein, and are with him today in Normandy. It was to troops of that sort that Monty made one of his famous proclamations: "Nothing has stopped us . . . Nothing will...
...worse. That, even the calm Tedder admitted, had been "pretty nerve-racking." But this time there would be no turning back. Ike's Plan. The plan that General Eisenhower set in motion had its genesis in the dark days after the rescue of the B.E.F. from Dunkirk. Then it was little more than a bulldog determination on the part of Britain to fight on alone, and some day, somehow, to carry the war back to the enemy. Now, after years of training and preparation, the plan had grown to a complexity of detail incomprehensible to the civilian...