Word: dunkirks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never? The argument for some Allied counterattack in Europe this year was simply that the risks of doing nothing outweighed the grave risks of doing something. Another Dunkirk? Russia's defeat would be immeasurably worse. Shipping short? With a German fleet in being already poised on the profile of Europe, it might be shorter yet, another year. Could Britain afford to weaken its home defenses for continental adventure? Britain could not afford to lose the war this year, as it might be lost, if Russia fell...
Frying Pan, Fire. In Dunkirk, N.Y., a driver smashed his car into a roadside pole, crawled out uninjured, brushed against a dangling high-tension wire, was electrocuted...
...each other in a pitchy midnight. . . . Even warfare is not what it was. Its glory is dirty. When a vast confusion is unintelligible in a prolonged and almost impenetrable darkness, it is difficult to add a touch of glory." Yet Author Tomlinson cannot escape the touch of glory at Dunkirk and the thought of Britain's air fighters: "I do not know how to write of those men who, few in number, went up on wings to avert Nazi dominion of Christendom...
...died with a British musket ball in his heart; his subordinate and student, Michel de Ruyter, whose conquering fleet once sailed up the Medway to within 30 miles of London; Vice Admiral Pieter Pieterzoon Hein, a splendid buccaneer who earned fame, plunder and death at the hands of Dunkirk pirates. These and other 17th-Century seadogs won for the Dutch the empire whose rich remnants Conrad Helfrich had to defend...
...brought back with him to this country something of the spirit which stirred every British heart at the time of Dunkirk." -Yorkshire Post...