The Battle of Britain, for European Glory
“When Napoleon lay at Boulogne for a year with his flat-bottomed boats and his Grand Army, he was told by someone, “there are bitter weeds in England.” There are certainly a great many more of them since the British Expeditionary Force returned.” Sir Winston Churchill began his landmark “We Shall Never Surrender” speech in the British Parliament in 1940, when Hitler’s Germany was carpet bombing the city of London every evening, after the fall of France, with an imminent fall