| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 12391 |
| QUOTATION: | Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Winston Churchill (1874–1965), British statesman, writer. speech, Nov. 10, 1942, the Mansion House, London. The End of the Beginning (1943).
on the Eighth Army’s victory against Rommel at El Alamein, Egypt. In his History of the Second World War, vol. 4 (1951), Churchill wrote, “It may almost be said, ‘Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.’...” |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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