
Storm of War
On 2 August 1944, in the wake of the complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre in Belorussia, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. ''Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler,'' Churchill jibed. ''Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in hi...
On 2 August 1944, in the wake of the complete destruction of the German Army Group Centre in Belorussia, Winston Churchill mocked Adolf Hitler in the House of Commons by the rank he had reached in the First World War. ''Russian success has been somewhat aided by the strategy of Herr Hitler, of Corporal Hitler,'' Churchill jibed. ''Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in hi...