Alan Allport
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Everyone reads the peroration to the 18 June 1940 “Finest Hour” speech. But what about the first sentence?“I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when
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OTD 80 years ago. Lord Gort, GOC of the BEF, contacts Anthony Eden at the War Office with an urgent request for instructions. Gort reports that the French 1st Army
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