Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fannies. Affiliated with the WATS are several thousand ambulance driving "Fannies" (First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), an old outfit founded in 1909, motorized in 1916, never disbanded. Their chief is the Countess of Athlone and some of their present ambulances are converted Harrod's delivery vans.
But II Duce still had one good card in his hand. If he could persuade Adolf Hitler to give up a sizable chunk of Poland for a buffer state, and present this offer to Britain and France as Germany's concession for peace, he still had a chance-though...
Next thing Estonians knew, warships of the Red Navy appeared off their ports. Soviet bombers, some of whom the Estonians thought came from a Russian aircraft carrier, began a threatening patrol over Tallinn and the nearby countryside. What all this meant, the Estonian Government soon learned from their Foreign Minister...
Than Captain Liddell Hart, no other ten military critics caused more stir in the 20 years following World War I. He studied the campaigns of 1914-18, emerged with the conclusion that the generals on both sides had bungled fantastically: wasted millions of lives, exhausted their national patrimonies, achieved virtually...
Remembering from "last time" the futility of trying to charge against a machine gun, Captain Liddell Hart lays down the axiom that in modern warfare the defense has a great advantage over the attack: no attack succeeds unless the attackers secure surprise or have at least a 3-to-1...