In 1917, when Germany began sinking ships that were bringing food (and military equipment) to Britain, and the country had just six weeks' food left, the Government initiated the rationing of food supplies. Even after the end of the war, sugar and butter remained rationed until 1920. Bread was subsidized but in 1917, British people were told to eat twenty five per cent less. Even the fighting troops had their food rationed. Compare . The US faced similar issues during the First World War. The country was in a severe economic depression, with many living in poverty, and .

Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) and Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) discuss President Roosevelt’s relationship with Winston Churchill during the Second World War https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/HqKWO6viisw copyright: Dr Warren...

Churchill, wanting to inspect the recently bombed areas, travelled by launch as the threat of unexploded bombs in the city made it dangerous to travel by road; Clementine went with him...

Churchill uses a telescope to watch an assault against enemy positions north of Florence, Italy, from an observation post, 20 August 1944 copyright: IWM (NA 17912)...

copyright: Reproduced from The Broadwater Collection with the permission of Curtis Brown Group Ltd, London, on behalf of The Broadwater Collection Original held at The Churchill Archives Centre, Churchill...

We must be careful not to assign to this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations.

We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization.

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders.

Introduced by Richard M Langworth...