defiant bravery by individual units, or even single soldiers, contributed to the sum of events which in the end tipped the scales of decision?
'But so much for conjecture. What is certain is that the "Halt Order" of 24 May was given—and confirmed. And in that hour the final victory which was within Hitler's grasp, which his soldiers had won for him, began to slip through his fingers, and the last days of his Thousand-Year Reich had begun.'
—From Sir Frederick Clinton's The Dunkirk Miracle (Gollancz, 1959)
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