Churchill was a gentleman? Tell it to the Irish.
And the Polish pilots originally were to be mechanics (read Zamoyski’s book), but the Brits didn’t have their own pilots, and certainly not experienced pilots
Pat’s book in part is to bring to life the real Churchill.
>> Whoa there. My statement was that Chamberlain was a gentleman. As a working class Englishman bought up on an absolute socialistic view of Churchill, I plead not guilty. Too long a tale here but, Churchill's put down of the impoverished working class at the General Strike of 1926, is something else. Chamberlain never wavered either, but he had more finesse.
I will not knock Churchill here, I have no brief for him. As has been stated, the man was a product of an unkind repressive class system- that is if one is of the underclass. The man was simply what they had carved out of him. IMHO