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“In 1944, it is true, we did not even give up,” replied the American.
This old anecdote is a good illustration of how different generations remember and understand history and the world around us. Sometimes, young people think that their lives are unique, unrepeatable, failures are greater, expectations are only “real and important”, and adventures, parties … where those parents or grandparents are already. If we talk about the period of the war, in general, “run, fall, cool, hide from the bombs and if you manage to get sausages from the partial kitchen, that’s the whole adventure.”
In September 1943, a fun and exclusive company met in a villa in Cairo, Egypt. “What makes it so unique?” The reader would ask. I’ll tell you right away.
William Stanley Moss, was born in Yokohama, Japan, into a family of “white” emigrants from Russia and a British businessman who later moved to England. After graduating, the 18-year-old went to see the world; for some time he lived in Latvia, in a small log cabin by the sea, before the war he went to Sweden and from there the yacht returned to his homeland. Britain needed troops: William fights the German RommelGerman Africa Corps“- Nazi expeditionary forces in North Africa. In 1943, he became part of the Special Operations Executive (SOE). William and rents the villa.
Wikipedia of Creative Commons / Villiamas Stanley’is Mossas
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