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Army with a Purpose. These are the regiments' separate memories, their separate battles. The common memory freshest in all their minds, vivid even in the minds of those who were not there, is of a terrible, bloody half-battle: Dunkirk...
...First Army was just about to be formed when France fell. Many of its units fought in France and were evacuated at Dunkirk. They, and the ones to whom they have told their story, remember the lines of soldiers on the beaches, the derelict equipment, the English jokes, the exhausted men running the little boats-and the determination to find, on some beach somewhere, revenge...
...After Dunkirk the First was formed up in southeast and eastern England. Its first two commanders, fittingly, were Alexander and Montgomery, though the latter only commanded for about a week. Then Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson took over...
...basic experience in common with his Army which will give him, along with them, determination to do his job as well as possible: He started the Battle of France at the Saar Valley and ended it in the water of Dunkirk...
General Anderson wants his troops to enjoy a Dunkirk in reverse. But he knows that they have a bigger task than that enjoyment. For though revenge lies just beyond the bitter hills and at the ends of the valleys, victory lies farther away. Victory is beyond the islands and over...