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From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

Maurice Cowling

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Maurice Cowling
Age: 78 †
Born: 1926
Born: September 6
Died: 2005
Died: August 24
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