Word: epical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stern Sir Andrew, 59, a veteran of Gallipoli, had just finished winning World War II's epic naval Battle of the Mediterranean. Since 1939, first as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, finally as commander of the Allied Mediterranean fleet, he had hunted for the Italians, sought to turn mare nostrum into mare Britannicum. His quest had ended in September 1943, at Malta, where the Italian Fleet surrendered. Now, as the Battle of the Atlantic flared with new violence, Sir Andrew set another sight...
Although the Danes ended their resistance to the Nasis soon after their country was invaded, Danish skies glow nightly with fires and explosions wreck rail lines and shipping centers. This is the epic Hasselriis will relate in his Tuesday talk...
...Navy transport Alchiba is back at sea again, eight months after officially being reported lost. Her log book is an epic of seamanship, brilliant salvage work and heroism...
...suggestive fact that the French people's national epic, Chanson de Roland, glorifies its defeat in war. For France, almost since its emergence as a nation, has been not only Europe's cultural capital, but its favorite battlefield and biggest graveyard. Living men have twice seen France smashed as a nation-in 1870 and in 1940. The French defeat of 1870 has long been associated with the name of Marshal Bazaine. Marshal Pétain has become almost a synonym for the collapse...
...Great Britain and Germany apparently worked on the first principles of radar at about the same time. So many people now claim its discovery and development that "the postwar battle over rights will probably be an epic on a national and international scale...