Talk:Once There Was a War

‘The Dutch show a calm, cold courage…’
Yes, Steinbeck was reluctant to say what he saw, but his description of torpedo boat operations has a sense of eyewitness testimony which is hard to fake, and the Ventotene episode where the Luftwaffe garrison is tricked into surrendering is either a masterly work of fiction or the vivid account of someone who was there. I vote for the latter. I will add the rescue of the Italian admiral and his wife from the mined, Axis-occupied island by British commandos, which is chillingly downplayed in the phlegmatic British manner. That ‘long wicked knife’ will stay with me for all time. 110.174.240.151 (talk) 07:39, 29 August 2023 (UTC)