On the fifth of June, 1940, not even a month after he became prime minister, Winston Churchill spoke to the British people to encourage them of their desperate situation. Bear in mind that in September of the previous year the Nazis had invaded Poland, with no effective resistance. Thereafter, with swift and sudden violence Norway, Belgium, the Netherlands, all had fallen prey to Nazi imperialism. And now, just a few days earlier, France had also collapsed, with thousands of British soldier …..

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Posted on October 31st, 2009 by faith
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