11th September 2025, 19:46
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Alter Hase
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Join Date: Jan 2016
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Re: Eagle Days: Life and Death for the Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain
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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Not to mention the florid prose: "enormous double-barrelled shotguns" (obviously WAY bigger than your normal shotgun), "doe-eyed innocence", "ultimate sacrifice". And as for "do the unthinkable: bale out over enemy territory" — if it was unthinkable, how come they had parachutes in the first place? Unwelcome surely, but a great advance on dying in a crashing aircraft.
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Nick,
I don't think logic applies here. It should, but not in this case. |