For Britain in 1940, the Second World War must have seemed very dark indeed. It had to bring its defeated troops back from Dunkirk, and the German Luftwaffe was reducing London to rubble through the Blitz. Britain must have, to almost every man, woman, and child, feared mightily for the country’s and their own futures not knowing if the United States would ever come to the party (which of course it did a year later, after Pearl Harbor).
That almost excluded one key man, that of Winston Churchill. On a diet which seemed to be a fat cigar, a bottle of Scotch whisky, and no more than two hours sleep a day, he maintained that the Allies would prevail. He had to totally rely on delegation to have army, navy, and air force perform. That delegatees ...
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