Thursday, December 22, 2016

miniscule triumph of arms

No nation can experience great victory without intoxication. A miniscule (sic - vs) triumph of arms, against a second-rate enemy who never had been, and never could be any kind of threat to Britain herself was enough to transfor British perceptions of Margaret Thatcher in 1982.

Englanders and Huns: The Culture-Clash which Led to the First World War - pg 126, by James Hawes

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