Back against the wall

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Here we will stand and fight; there will be no further withdrawal. I have ordered that all plans and instructions dealing with further withdrawal are to be burnt, and at once. We will stand and fight here. If we can't stay here alive, then let us stay here dead.

Bernard Montgomery

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Topic

Back against the wall Never surrender Surrender War

Speaker

Bernard Montgomery

Medium

Speech

Genre

Military speech

Language

English

Time

1942 1940s 20th century

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Citation

Lord Montgomery of Alamein. Address to the Officers and Men of the Eighth Army. 13 Aug. 1942, Cairo, Egypt.