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...soldiers could be more resolute. I have seen them ordered to attack a strong point almost impregnable to infantry. They filed off without a word. Many died in that sortie. The survivors did not utter one word of private criticism of the task they had been...
...demoralization" was fantastic. It was believable only as arising in part from the long-smoldering crisis in Germany's High Command which exploded last week (see The Enemy). It was in Russia that Hitler's "fight for every mile" policy had been reduced to the most utter and glaring bankruptcy. It is hard for a commander to follow orders that he knows to be ridiculous. If he knows there is trouble where the orders come from, it is only human and natural for him to hope they will be changed...
...college instructor, with a lieutenant colonel's crown-and-pip on his shoulders and an insufferable habit of talking down to his classes. But he was then what he is now, a completely dedicated professional, soldier, with a superb sense of the big things of war, and an utter contempt for the small...
...Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again, in a film that is not easily forgotten...
Will the Germans, retreating to the Reich, do their best to leave the lost cities of Europe in utter ruin...