The British military tradition for defending the island was the "wooden wall" and the logical modern steel-built offspring: the RN's steel ships...
Let's not forget Glorious and her two escorts (Acasta and Ardent, IIRC). In any case, that's besides the point. The real shock was that the RN...
Please note the phrase in my previous post: "in the eyes of the contemporaries"; i.e. not from the perspective of someone with 20/20 hindsight...
The mood changed quite dramaticly as Norway turned into a debacle. The French didn't want to fight much to begin with, or they would have done...
The correct phrase is "Churchill Cabinet," but it's a matter of semantics Sure, please check the rules for the what-if forum. Anyway, as FDR...
After the fall of France in June 1940, peace with Germany wasn't a realistic political option for British Empire. Britain would be highly...
When Chamberlain lost public confidence in April, it was not a given that Churchill would become the PM. In fact, the King and Chamberlain...
oops, my bad. Sorry for making such a rudimentary/typographic mistake; as oboviously, I knew the month and date of Norwegian and Lower Country...
Chamberlain's political fortune collapsed with the operational failures in Norway in April 1939. That failure prompted the remaining British...
Halifax would have only become the Prime Minister before May 1940; it has to be assumed that Churchill did not engage in his machinations to...