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Cyril Falls, The First World War (London Longman Green, 1960), pp. 376-80. Robertson to Lt.-General G.F. Milne, 7 Nov. 1916, in The Military Correspondenee of Field Marshal Sir William Robertson, Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Deeember 1915-February 1918, ed. David Woodward (London Bodley Head for Army Records Society, 1989), p. 102. [Pg.89]

See War Diaries 1939-1945 Field Marshal Lord Alanhrooke, ed., Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman (London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001), pp. 187, 189-91, 261, 263, 279, 321, 323-5, 410, 427-8, 430, 515, for Churchill s obsession with invading Norway, despite lack of air cover and shipping, his reluctance to reduce the size of the army, and his opportunism as opposed to long-term strategy. [Pg.166]

Alanbrooke, Lord, War Diaries Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, ed. Alex Danchev and Daniel Todman, London Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2001. Auchinleck, Sir Claude, despatch on Operations in the Middle East from 1st November, 1941, to 15th August, 1942 , London Gazette, no. 38177, 15 January 1948. [Pg.352]

Then word came from Field Marshal Kutuzov s headquarters over at Gorky the Hussars and a seizable proportion of the right flank were being moved into the centre. Padorin leaped up into his saddle, keen to be let off his leash. [Pg.53]

Prince William IX of Hesse Cassel, first patron of the Rothschilds, whose Prussian field marshal s uniform is decorated by a Cross of Malta... [Pg.206]

The ramifications of the atomic bomb project reached such proportions that in August 1943 it was decided to establish a Combined Policy Committee, composed at the outset of Secretary of War Stimson, Dr. Bush, Dr. Conant for the United States, Field Marshall Sir John Dill and Colonel J.J. Llewellin, for the United Kingdom and Mr. C.D. Howe for Canada. Col. Llewellin was later replaced by Sir Ronald I. Campbell who in turn was succeeded by the Earl of Halifax the late Field Marshal Dill was succeeded by Field Marshal Sir Henry Maitland Wilson. The United States members have had as their scientific adviser. Dr. Richard C. Tolman the British, Sir James Chadwick and the Canadian, Dean C.J. Mackenzie. [Pg.352]

The Field Marshall, formerly the Deutsche Ost Afrika Line s Feldinarschall, with stripes fore and aft and plain paint in between. [Pg.113]

Wilson, Field Marshal Lord (British Army), 88... [Pg.284]

According to some reports, Egyptian Armed Forces Commander-in-Chief Field Marshall Mohammed Abd el Hakim Amer, who headed the defeated Egyptian Army in the 1967 Six Days War, was later poisoned, institutionally, by this substance. Allegedly, he committed suicide by means of aconitine that had been introduced to him while arrested [69]. An unidentified toxicant, possibly the same plant toxin, was used to replace the antidote with which Egyptian autoinjectors were filled, for personal assassinations [70]. [Pg.1557]

Another officer suggested using sulfur dioxide as a chemical weapon. Field Marshal Lord Kitchener, Secretary of State for War, was not interested in the concept for the army but suggested trying the navy. At the Admiralty, the idea found a... [Pg.13]

On Friday, March 28 (of the week when Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, commander of the Afrika Korps, opened a major offensive in North Africa when the British meat ration was reduced to six ounces per person per week when British torpedo bombers successfully attacked the Italian fleet as it returned from the Aegean, a performance that greatly interested the Japanese), Seaborg recorded ... [Pg.355]

Fleming joins John Surrey on a covert mission to Nazi-occupied France, where they capture German Field Marshall Erwin Roimnel. Fleming finally realizes that Surrey is a time-traveler from the 21st century, which explains why he always seems to know things in advance (Dann, 1999). [Pg.263]

In Britain, for example, Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Sir John Dill and J.B.S. Haldane were among those who were not inhibited by the moralistic case against gas warfare see W.S. Churchill to General Ismay for Chiefs of Staff Committee, 6 July 1944, PRO, PREM 3/89 The Use of Gas in Home Defence. Memorandum by CIGS , 15 June 1940, PRO, WO 193/732 J.B.S. Haldane, Callinicus - A Defence of Chemical Warfare (London Kegan Paul, 1925). [Pg.182]

Sir H. Wilson to his wife, n.d., quoted in Sir C. E. CeSl fieM,Field-Marshal... [Pg.216]


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