No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity. (Harold Alexander)

No other troops in the world but German paratroops could have stood up to such an ordeal and then gone on fighting with such ferocity.

Harold Alexander

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