5/12/2023 0 Comments The darkest surrender![]() ![]() The War Cabinet crisis in May 1940 occurred over just a few days, yet ultimately resulted in some of Churchill’s more favourable descriptors in the above list. The list goes on and on, but each label, when taken alone, fails to do Churchill justice when taken together, they offer a challenge on a par with tossing 20 jigsaw puzzles together and expecting a single unified picture. This is for the simple reason that seldom in history has a figure done so much, both good and bad, and made such a difference in the course of a long and packed lifetime, let alone the 65 years before this story begins in the House of Commons on those tense May days in 1940. ![]() Books on him dwarf in number those about George Washington, Julius Caesar or Napoleon, and render insipid the collective attempts to describe his great enemy Adolf Hitler. We have seen more ink expended on Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill than on any other figure in history. ![]()
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