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The guy was a throwback to Victorian Britain basically. He was still fighting for the empire when the public was tired of everything but friends and family. A
by digi_owl 10y ago
The guy was a throwback to Victorian Britain basically.
He was still fighting for the empire when the public was tired of everything but friends and family.
And frankly i am not sure how much "he" won it and how much he basically survived it.
- icebraining 10y agoThe empires of the future are the empires of the mind. -- Churchill (1943)
- flukus 10y ago> And frankly i am not sure how much "he" won it and how much he basically survived it. He was very active in creating a military build up long before the war started, Britain could have fallen had it not been for his planning.
- digi_owl 10y agoFrankly they were on the brink of falling even with said buildup. Except that Hitler got vindictive and impatient, first he redirected the Luftwaffe to bomb cities, giving the RAF time to recover and reorganize, and then Barbarossa started.
- atmosx 10y agoThe WWII is kinda complex... Don't you think that saying that Hitler didn't win the war because of one decision a bit stretched?
- osullivj 10y agoChurchill was wrong about many things. But we must credit him with one towering achievement. In May & June 1940 the whole of Europe lay at Hitler's feet. Many in Britain wanted to reach an accommodation with the Third Reich, fearing that fighting on would lose all [1]. Churchill refused to consider any compromise and insisted on a fight to the end. If Britain had acceeded to a Nazi dominated Europe in 1940, where would the world be now? [1] Lukacs, Five days in London, May 1940