"What happened next?" The girl was enthralled by her grandfather animatedly telling the story of how the world decended into the bloodiest conflict in human history.
The old man dug into his folder for the next set of articles as he spoke, 
  "The Germans were putting the Allies, chiefly Britain and France, on the spot by attacking smaller countries that couldn't defend themselves against their modernized tanks and tactics."
Current Date: December 1st, 1939