Against a great deal of pressure not to. Many in the British government were pushing for a conditional surrender.
Not only did Churchill “go it alone”, he did so with politcal pressure of all stripes (the commies and socialists changed their tune, however, when the Soviet Union was attacked), opportunistic nationalists (Indian, Egyptian, etc) seeking the dismantling of the British Empire(Indians eventually constituted the largest, national contingent of the British armed forces), and home-grown British Nazis (Mosley’s Blackshirts) tugging public opinion, and government attention, in various directions.
Against a great deal of pressure not to. Many in the British American government were pushing for a conditional surrender.
See? Who needs historians when we have text editors...:)?
‘Against a great deal of pressure not to. Many in the British government were pushing for a conditional surrender.’
I’d really love to see a link to this if you have one, though I doubt you have unless it was in a parallel world!