Churchill waves to jubilant crowds from the balcony at the Ministry of Health, Whitehall, London copyright: IWM (H 41849)...

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What a slender thread the greatest of things can hang by.

We are defeated at sea because our admirals have learned – where I know not– that war can be made without running risks.

There is only one thing certain about war, that it is full of disappointments and also full of mistakes.

Churchill was prepared to risk his own personal safety, too, in the interests of winning the war So great was Churchill’s desire to be in on the action – and to...

Although Britain had defeated Hitler’s attempts to invade, the Nazi forces continued their march. 1941 was a testing time for the British in the war. Conflict had spread to the Mediterranean and north Africa after Italy entered the war on 10 June 1940. Although the British had counter-attacked in north Africa and pushed on into Libya, the Germans defeated the British in Greece, Yugoslavia surrendered and the initial victories against the Italians in North Africa were reversed when Erwin Rommel, the ‘Desert Fox’ arrived with his German forces. In Asia, Japan advanced in China, occupied French Indo-China (later Vietnam) and were threatening the British colony of Hong Kong. It looked like Germany had the upper hand.

Dr Warren Dockter (University of Cambridge) and Professor Richard Toye (University of Exeter) discuss Winston Churchill’s war memoirs https://wwwyoutubecom/embed/b7-RrQGXehQ?list=PLVRJoyIOeaRK4eDDCZ_GOgIAXWOcRtmf- copyright: Dr Warren Dockter and Professor Richard Toye...