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Un jour, chargés de délivrer un groupe français encerclé, ses cavaliers hésitaient devant la ligne ennemie d’où partait un feu décimant. Le capitaine Colet jeta son képi par-dessus les retranchements et les Tcherkesses se ruèrent au galop pour ne pas le laisser prendre. Des gestes pareils, on m’en a cité à foison, mais ils ne suffisent point pour
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Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10
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If you met Lewis in the street, you might guess that he was a lawyer or a kindly geography teacher. In fact, he was one of the most efficiently deadly men in the British services.
Ant Middleton • First Man In: Leading from the Front
Gubbins had won his MC as a gunner in the First World War, fought against the Bolsheviks in revolutionary Russia and against Sinn Fein in the Irish Civil War of 1922–3, and spoke French, Russian and Urdu.