During the Schützes' pacifist years it was only gradually that they began to find some support from like-minded people, like Bertrand Russell
and Ramsay MacDonald
(though GHS
felt the latter was a fair-weather pacifist), and...
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23 March 1945: Field-Marshal Montgomery led Allied troops...
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23 March 1945
Field-Marshal Montgomery
led Allied troops across the Rhine in a large-scale invasion that became known as Operation Plunder.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
217
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
812-13
8 May 1945: This day, the one following the formal, unconditional...
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8 May 1945
This day, the one following the formal, unconditional German surrender to the Allies at Rheims in France, was called V. E. Day or VE Day.
Messenger, Charles. World War Two Chronological Atlas: When, Where, How and Why. Bloomsbury, 1989.
223, 226-7
Keegan, John. The Second World War. Viking, 1990.
529, 533
Weinberg, Gerhard L. A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
825-7
Briggs, Asa. The BBC: The First Fifty Years. Oxford University Press, 1985.
