Don't be so sure about that last one. The story of a completely supine British Establishment that needed Winston Churchill to stand up to the Jerries is a myth created by--well, largely by Winston Churchill. The man was a master of self-promotion.
Don't be so sure about that last one. The story of a completely supine British Establishment that needed Winston Churchill to stand up to the Jerries is a myth created by--well, largely by Winston Churchill. The man was a master of self-promotion.
Did any other politician have the charisma and foresight to rally Britain at the time? I can't think of any.
In the words of Andrew Marr, the decade prior to the Second World War was an age of 'political pygmies.'
True, but at the cabinet meetings held at the start of the Dunkirk evacuation to discuss what to do next, it was his force of personality alone which persauded the war cabinet to not seek any possible peace terms from Germany.Don't be so sure about that last one. The story of a completely supine British Establishment that needed Winston Churchill to stand up to the Jerries is a myth created by--well, largely by Winston Churchill. The man was a master of self-promotion.
A mainland Europe totally dominated by either the Nazi's or Stalin's Soviet Union would never have been better for Britain.Or whether a Peace of Arras in 1940 might have been better for Britain than Germany given the possible course of events in the years that follow:
Steve