Word: thiepval
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...believe in Christmas relaxation, in war"; used "atrocity" propaganda and blood-and-thunder speeches ad lib to increase his troops' morale. Yet he can take stock thus of the ultimate end of discipline, of all soldierly training: "The net result of the barren, glorious bloody battle of Thiepval is that over 700 men of the West Belfast battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles prove their ability to subordinate matter to mind. Intellectual discipline had triumphed...
Colonel Broome, the advance officer of the British world fliers, arrived from the North at the Kurile Islands off Japan, after a two months' adventurous and turbulent voyage in the Canadian trawler Thiepval. Broome established bases on Behring Island, Attu and other places in the Aleutians in preparation for MacLaren's trans-Pacific flight. There was no doubt that even with the best of luck this is extremely dangerous territory. Martin's disappearance only served to emphasize its hazards. Broome left nothing undone to insure success although he called the undertaking "at long odds a gamble...
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