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to help him but they ignore his calls. Eventually he jumps in the sea but has to be rescued by the woman. The soldiers talk to her and discover that she is Slavic, and doesn't understand
English, French or German. Finally Finch tries Italian and is able to communicate with her. All the soldiers vie for her attention.
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British officer Brown sees a woman, Elsa, in the sea clinging to some wreckage. He is unable to swim and calls to his men
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British, and so as agreed the British troops go aboard along with Elsa, while the Germans go into hiding. They reflect that had it been a German submarine, they would probably have been sent to the Eastern Front. But no sooner has the British submarine
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island. After setting up camp they discover that the island is the base for a small unit of
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somewhere in North Africa. British troops train in enemy plane and ship recognition. They train to operate an inflatable dinghy and are then taken by submarine to an
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disappeared than a U-Boat surfaces. Preferring a life of idleness in the
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