
Max Hastings
WW2 Pod: We Have Ways of Making You Talk
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Boma Harris - The Great War Leader
Maxwell spent five hours with arthur harrisb, i don't want you to cast judgment on him as as a war time leader. But in wars of existential survival, you need absolute bastards like a boma harris, bomy harris. Churchill liked gentlemen like alexander in italy, and like he liked people who behaved like proper blows. And there was a vulgarity about harris im expressed by that remark of his when he said that the british army would never take tanks seriously until they could be taught to eat hay and ship. If you want to be in any war, including the secnd war war, a really successful admiral or general
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