The National Review, Volume 70W.H. Allen, 1918 |
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Page 15
... fact that at not a few points on the British Front , and the same thing is presumably happening on the French Front , superior numbers of the enemy occasionally surrender to inferior numbers of our men speaks for itself — all the more ...
... fact that at not a few points on the British Front , and the same thing is presumably happening on the French Front , superior numbers of the enemy occasionally surrender to inferior numbers of our men speaks for itself — all the more ...
Page 38
... fact that we could not change international law from time to time with a change in the situation of the war , and that Germany had furnished arms to England to use against the Boers ; but he simply answered , saying , " We care nothing ...
... fact that we could not change international law from time to time with a change in the situation of the war , and that Germany had furnished arms to England to use against the Boers ; but he simply answered , saying , " We care nothing ...
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... fact , there are few people in this country who have any clear notion of the functions of a General Staff ; nor is this surprising in view of the fact that before the war it was muzzled and powerless to affect national policy , that it ...
... fact , there are few people in this country who have any clear notion of the functions of a General Staff ; nor is this surprising in view of the fact that before the war it was muzzled and powerless to affect national policy , that it ...
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... fact was , the supreme military authority , and the natural instinct of the country at the beginning of the war was to look for a great soldier to take the place of the Secretary for War , whose mission it should be , not only to super ...
... fact was , the supreme military authority , and the natural instinct of the country at the beginning of the war was to look for a great soldier to take the place of the Secretary for War , whose mission it should be , not only to super ...
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... fact that every undertaking in his career had been a one - man show , " whose success had been due , not , as many suppose , to any peculiar powers of organization , but to his persistence , iron determination , his vast capacity for ...
... fact that every undertaking in his career had been a one - man show , " whose success had been due , not , as many suppose , to any peculiar powers of organization , but to his persistence , iron determination , his vast capacity for ...
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