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After the breakthrough

16 June 2016

1:00 PM

16 June 2016

1:00 PM

From ‘Verdun’, The Spectator, 16 June 1916: As has been proved again and again in this war, if you are willing to pay the price you can always break the enemy’s line, and break it on a considerable front; but when you have broken it you are no better off than you were before.

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