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Final line of the “we shall fight them on the beaches” speech, not delivered until after the microphones were turned off.Winston Churchill wrote: ↑Thu Jan 23, 2020 11:19 pm And we'll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that's bloody well all we've got!
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Presumably elite units would have been given the butt ends of all his used champagne bottles? And I'm sure he'd have been more than happy to stub out the remnants of a cigar in some fallschirmjager's face.
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
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Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
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What, nahhh, whenever things got that close and dangerous, or he might get blame, Churchill ran away and let others sort out the mess.
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You mean the way he ran away post-Gallipoli....by serving in the front line?
Kein Plan überlebt den ersten Kontakt mit den Würfeln. (No plan survives the first contact with the dice.)
Baron Mannshed von Wreckedoften, First Sea Lord of the Bavarian Admiralty.
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And from political parties twice.
The man was a glory hound who dodged consequences like a bad comedian dodging tomatos.
In the summer of 1940 he was in the right place at the right time, for the only time in his life.
The man was a glory hound who dodged consequences like a bad comedian dodging tomatos.
In the summer of 1940 he was in the right place at the right time, for the only time in his life.
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If that's the case, it is indeed just as well he was there.