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The idea was developed in Britain in the Second World War, initially from an idea by Major Wellesley Tudor Pole. People were asked to devote one minute of prayer for peace at nine o’clock each evening. He said: “There is no power on earth that can withstand the united cooperation on spiritual levels of men and women of goodwill everywhere.
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Churchill's speech lasted nearly fifty minutes, in which he first stated "Almost a year has passed since the war began, and it is natural for us, I think, to pause on our journey at this milestone and survey the dark, wide field" [9] going on to say that, so far, there had been many fewer casualties than at the same point in the First World War, stating that the war was not a "prodigious ...
World War II poster containing the famous lines by Winston Churchill The Battle of Britain anniversary parade at Buckingham Palace in 1943.. Winston Churchill summed up the effect of the battle and the contribution of RAF Fighter Command, RAF Bomber Command, RAF Coastal Command and the Fleet Air Arm with the words, "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few". [14]
Browned Off and Bloody-Minded: The British Soldier Goes to War, 1939–1945 (Yale UP, 2015) Atkinson, Rick. The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 (2008) Buckley, John. British Armour in the Normandy Campaign 1944 (2004) D'Este, Carlo. Decision in Normandy: The Unwritten Story of Montgomery and the Allied Campaign (1983).
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It was written and published in The Times at a time when news of the botched Jameson Raid of January 1896 reached Britain. [1] Accordingly, it has been read as an expression of foreboding about increasing Great Power hostility to Britain [ 2 ] – "The Nations in their harness / Go up against our path" – as a comment on filibustering and as ...
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