Sentences with phrase «quick end to the war»

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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.

The attraction is mutual, though she is involved with a crusading journalist, Chris (Christian Bale), a hard - drinking, quick - to - anger, but widely traveled and highly astute fellow who understands that the nation, and Europe, are atop a powder keg of ethnic, political, and nationalist tensions — the Ottoman Empire is ending, a new Turkey is being born on the eve of world war, and it will be a bloody delivery.

Top - rated audiobooks across a range of genres, such as Mary Kubica's The Good Girl, Karl Marlantes» What It Is Like to Go to War, Matthew Quick's The Silver Linings Playbook, Anne Lamott's Stitches and Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game Alive

Dreaming of a good life that he could provide to his newly - wed wife through the get - rich - quick promise of piracy, Kenway becomes a pirate, which quickly leads him to become entwined in the never - ending war between the Assassins and Templars.

I did a quick series of videos showing the ending of that previous game, as well as the fight that lead up to it, but Shadow of War thankfully does a great job in recapping how you got here.