334: Stalemate


British armored vehicles move across the North African desert in 1940.

The German failure to bring the British to heel during the Battle of Britain left the two warring nations in a stalemate. Neither nation had a plausible means of defeating the other.

But when Italy entered the war, it created an Italian-British front in North Africa. The Italians had numerical superiority, but they couldn’t keep up with the motorized British units.

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Fanfare

Opening War Theme

Violin Concerto in G Minor “Summer”
Composed in 1723 by Antonio Vivaldi. Public domain.
Performed by John Harrison. Performance used pursuant to a Creative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0 license. Source.

Closing War Theme



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