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“God was not say, ‘I’m giving you these commands, and by keeping them you may become my people.’ He was saying, ‘I’m giving you these commands because you are my people.’ The law tells us how people who belong to God ought to live.”
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“Robert Surcouf was the most famous of France’s eighteenth-century privateers who, based on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, grew rich on English plunder before retiring to his native St Malo. Renowned for his chivalry towards prisoners, in France he is perhaps best remembered for the reply he gave a captive officer who admonished him for fighting for money rather than, as the British did, for honour. ‘Each of us fights,’ admitted Surcouf, ‘for what he lacks most.”
― England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
― England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
“In the early part of the Verdun battle he was reported to have cured an epidemic of self-inflicted wounds to hands or feet by posting orders that in future offenders would spend a night tied to stakes in no-man’s-land.”
― England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
― England's Last War Against France: Fighting Vichy 1940-1942
Topics Mentioning This Author
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| THE WORLD WAR TWO...: Vichy France | 9 | 219 | Apr 04, 2010 05:30PM | |
| THE WORLD WAR TWO...: Recommended or Further Reading from "Inferno/All Hell Let Loose" | 12 | 109 | Oct 17, 2012 02:41AM | |
| Book Buying Addic...: April 2013 Purchases | 64 | 99 | May 01, 2013 09:45AM | |
| The History Book ...: SECOND WORLD WAR - THE LIBERATION TRILOGY - GLOSSARY - PART ONE ~ (SPOILER THREAD) | 153 | 267 | Jun 03, 2013 07:00PM | |
| Espionage Aficion...: histo - fic authors | 3 | 10 | Aug 29, 2015 06:17AM | |
| THE WORLD WAR TWO...: Bibliography of British & Commonwealth and US Commanders in WWII | 64 | 96 | Sep 18, 2015 10:54PM | |
| The History Book ...: BIBLIOGRAPHY - STAYING ON - THE RAJ QUARTET SERIES~ (Spoiler Thread) | 43 | 219 | Aug 10, 2020 01:43PM | |
| Around the World ...: Singapore | 24 | 1405 | Jan 24, 2025 10:50PM | |
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