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当诺曼底战役发起的时候,英国著名军事史专家约翰·基根还是一名少年。和许多英国民众一样,他当时对进攻欧洲的战事未能由蒙哥马利这样的英国将军来总揽指挥感到很失望。他们当时坚信:进攻欧洲大陆是英国人的设想,虽然美国提供了更多的兵力,还有绝大多数武器。这个反攻行动承诺已久,丘吉尔对英国人保证过,英国人也对他们自己许诺过。在很多英国人看来,诺曼底登陆是个清算历史的行动,英国在四年前被逐出欧洲大陆,随后又遭遇那么多苦难,因此有着充分的理由通过诺曼底滩头的辉煌胜利来报偿这一切。
When the Battle of Normandy was launched, John Kegan, a famous British military historian, was still a teenager. Like many British civilians, he was disappointed at the fact that the war on Europe was not controlled by a British general like Montgomery. At that time, they firmly believed that attacking the European continent was an idea of the British. Although the United States provided more troops and most of its weapons. The counter-offensive has long been promised, Churchill assured the British, and the British promised themselves. For many Britons, landing in Normandy is a history of liquidation. The United Kingdom was expelled from mainland Europe four years ago and suffered so much later that there was good reason to compensate for it through the magnificent victory of the beach in Normandy.