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British Military Planning and Aims in 1944

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‘Man is born free,’ said Rousseau, ‘and everywhere he is in chains.’ His reference was to political constraints; I borrow his phrase to emphasise the more widespread compulsion imposed by time upon the supposed liberty of human action. Choices made at a given time depend on earlier choices.

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  1. Text in J. M. A. Gwyer and J. R. M. Butler, History of the Second World War: Grand Strategy, Vol. III (London, 1964), Appendix I.

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  2. Field Marshal Alexander’s Despatch. Supplement to London Gazette 12 June 1950, p. 2580. Full text in M. E. Howard, History of the Second World War: Grand Strategy, Vol. IV (London, 1972) Appendix VI (D),p. 669.

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  3. N. Hamilton, Monty: Master of the Battlefield 1942–44, Vol. II (London, 1983) p. 420. ‘No one knew why the Allies were in Italy, apart from the need to “knock Italy out of the war” and to take possession of the Foggia airfields’; omitting the fundamental object of the campaign and inserting from a different document a subsidiary object.

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  4. John Ehrman, History of the Second World War: Grand Strategy, Vol. V (London, 1956) pp. 80–81.

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  5. cf. E. Barker, British Policy in South-East Europe in the Second World War (London, 1976) p. 122. One result, as she points out, was to complicate negotiations with Romanian opposition leaders.

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  1. St Antony’s College, Oxford, UK

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Hunt, D. (1988). British Military Planning and Aims in 1944. In: Deakin, W., Barker, E., Chadwick, J. (eds) British Political and Military Strategy in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe in 1944. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19379-0_1

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