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The savage triumph

“SOLDIERS! THE YEAR 1944 WILL BE very difficult. It is our joint task to transcend the purely defensive in its course and deal the adversary such heavy blows that finally the hour will come in which Providence can grant the victory to that nation which deserves it the most.”

As the broadcaster turned historian Jonathan Dimbleby goes on to detail in his excellent book , it would not be Germany who would come out on top. In probably his finest

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