Sentences with phrase «against unanimous opposition»

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The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.