Posted on 01/23/2015 9:37:49 AM PST by the scotsman
'On Thursday, the Magazine looked at the greatest controversies of Winston Churchill's career. Here, the BBC's world affairs editor examines how an all-too-human politician became a great wartime prime minister.'
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Thank you!
The British Establishment was only reluctantly dragged into war with Hitler in 1939, and would certainly have made a peace deal with him after the fall of France, except for Churchill. One man in the right place at the right time may have saved the civilized world.
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