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The Battle of the Bulge cost the Germans between 80,000 and 100,000 men, plus the bulk of Hitler’s armored reserve. The Wehrmacht might continue to fight a defensive war in the west, but it was no longer capable of offensive action.

Bjørge Lillelien’s stream of consciousness at the end of the match (“Lord Nelson! Lord Beaverbrook! Sir Winston Churchill! Sir Anthony Eden! Clement Attlee! Henry Cooper! Lady Diana! Maggie Thatcher, can you hear me? Maggie Thatcher, your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!”) the greatest piece of sports commentar

The killing of prisoners was never institutionalised, as on the Eastern Front, but Eisenhower’s men committed their share of excesses. A Canadian soldier described his experience of a patrol in Holland, in which his unit captured eight dismounted German tankers attempting to get back to their own lines. Their

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From 1943 onwards, the Allies outgunned the Axis in every category of weapon, save tank armament, by ever-growing margins. This makes it all more remarkable that, in the face of so many handicaps and misjudgements, German forces were able to sustain a ferocious resistance until May 1945.

Winston Churchill kept a close eye on Gubbins’s work and praised him for organizing the Auxiliary Units ‘with thoroughness and imagination’. He also expressed his hope that the guerrillas would fight to the death inside the German beachhead and ‘perish in the common ruin rather than to fail or falter in their duty’.41

Another supporting character who comes close to Churchill’s half-century-plus of involvement in irregular matters is Jan Smuts, who started out as a Boer insurgent but later ran the British East African campaign against von Lettow-Vorbeck during World War I. He reappears again during World War II as a bureaucratic thorn in the side of Britain’s mas

the Great War.

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