Churchill's Hour
Churchill's Hour
“It was the shortest night of the year. Four million men stood hidden along a front that stretched from the Black Sea to Finland. They squashed mosquitoes, read the Bible, wrote to loved ones, checked their equipment, ate, drank, prayed, and prepared for death—some other man’s death, they hoped.
Fourteen minutes past three in the morning. A lightness in the eastern sky. But still Russia slept.
A minute later, they began to move, backed by three and a half thousand tanks, seven thousand field gun...s and more than two thousand aircraft. They swarmed from their hiding places in the birch groves and fir forests and began to cross the rivers, the bridges and the crude wooden barriers that marked the frontier. The German invasion of Russia had begun.
It was to result in the greatest slaughter in the history of the human race.
Churchill had taken to his bed the previous evening in an unsettled mood, like a salmon sensing a changing tide. He had woken in the middle of the night and sat bolt upright, waiting, and that was how they had found him when they came to give him the news.MoreLess
Fourteen minutes past three in the morning. A lightness in the eastern sky. But still Russia slept.
A minute later, they began to move, backed by three and a half thousand tanks, seven thousand field gun...s and more than two thousand aircraft. They swarmed from their hiding places in the birch groves and fir forests and began to cross the rivers, the bridges and the crude wooden barriers that marked the frontier. The German invasion of Russia had begun.
It was to result in the greatest slaughter in the history of the human race.
Churchill had taken to his bed the previous evening in an unsettled mood, like a salmon sensing a changing tide. He had woken in the middle of the night and sat bolt upright, waiting, and that was how they had found him when they came to give him the news.MoreLess
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