D.N.B.
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Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment.
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Even the German news agency D.N.B. said: "Every house in the Soviet capital is being turned into a fortress."
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D.N.B. reported in fearsome detail the strength, depth and impregnability of the Nazi's coast defenses.
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D.N.B. reported that Rundstedt had been relieved because of ill health, a plausible enough reason, had not the same agency's correspondents, two weeks earlier, reported on his "firm, healthy stride."
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Footnote 1129: See Hamilton Papers, vol. i., pp. lxxxiii.-vi.; and the present writer in D.N.B., s.v.
From Henry VIII. by A. F. (Albert Frederick) Pollard
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