Random Historical Moments

First one to quote from the Battle of Maldon loses?

Taking the evidence of Powell and Pressburger's wartime films, it is not too much to claim that they saw death on the right, romantic and losing side as better than victory on the side of greed, modernisation and injustice. Colonel Blimp, his wife (Deborah Kerr) dead and the house of his childhood bombed into ruins, finds that the morale-raising broadcast he is due to make, on the need for fair play in war even at the cost of defeat, is cancelled by the government advocates of total warfare. The enemy is within the gates.

posted by Brituncula @ 7:14 AM