Word: inlanders
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...dawn last week cold enough to make a man's nostrils stick together, the Albanian coast appeared as a thin line over the sea in the east to a silent row of British battleships approaching Valona. Not far inland, the Greeks were slogging slowly ahead with their mountain warfare through deep snowdrifts. The sea was cold, grey and unusually calm for the Adriatic. Just before sunrise Admiral Sir Andrew Browne Cunningham ordered: "Open fire." The big ships belched thunderously and shook...
Rout. The fighting was taking place on the coastal plain, which the Italians call the Marmarica. Some 30 miles inland from Buqbuq an escarpment juts suddenly above the desert, 300-600 feet high. This escarpment runs diagonally towards the coast and meets it at Salum, hard by the Libyan border. Were it a man-made barrier like China's Great Wall, the escarpment could be no more effective as a wall against land warfare. At Salum just two precipitous gullies run from the plain to the top of the plateau and Libya. Into those bottlenecks the British chased...
...Like most gigantic projects of State planning-like Russia's White Sea Canal, Germany's Strength Through Joy automobile factories, France's Maginot Line-it was the kind of Big Job that made a strong appeal to the imagination. The thought of warships abuilding on sheltered inland seas, of ocean-going freighters plowing to the docks of Detroit, appealed to many a hardhead aware of the labyrinthine economic dangers of the project. It was impossible to estimate the cultural consequences of so vast an undertaking, the changed relations with Canada that it would involve, the impact...
...world's civilizations have invariably flourished beside the water: on the Nile, the Tigris & Euphrates, the Yellow River; on the Mediterranean; and, since Great Britain rose to power, across the waterways of the world. Invariably these civilizations have been challenged by inland hordes. Often they have fought off their challengers; often they have been overthrown; but invariably civilization has returned to the world by way of the water...
...third fortress, Suez, was secure so long as British sea power held the eastern Mediterranean, so long as Italy was stalled in Egypt, so long as Russia kept Germany out of the Near East via Turkey. The Russians, another inland horde, were choosing not to help their rival horde, were biding the time (maybe many years hence) when they would be the challenging power...