ospalh
»History offers no parallel for this gigantic military #bouleversement.«
Giant military what?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bouleversement
(That is from the war criminal Nazi general whining how Nazi Germany had to fight a two-front war after the #PearlHarbor attack.
Dude, who started the war with the Soviet Union?)
#ospalhReads #WindsOfWar #Wouk #vocabulary
bouleversement - Wiktionary

May 9, 2023 at 2:44pmWeb
Show threadospalhMay 10, 2023
This is from a book in the book. But that was written in German, and translated by the protagonist into English – in a know-yur-vanquisht-enemy way.
So then: what grandious German word would the author hav used here? »Erschütterung«? Sounds a bit weak for »boulversement«. Maybe Henry pickt that to get the general blustering haughty tone of the tome, rather than to match a single word.