Maybe 10 or 20, chose not to go. They thought the war is over, we lost and they went home back to their farms. How they fared no one knows. Host whether was your reaction in Great Britain to dunkirk . Guest churchill and churchill did this he made a defeat sound as if it was the ost heroic and he saeid evacuations, retreats are not victories, he was clear on this. But the way he said it made dunkirk sound like a heroic victory. And the british people came away saying, well, if we can do that, we can bloody well whip the hun. Well, they had it backwards. They were running, swimming literally, home without their weapons, without their tanks and jeeps they didnt have generals then but trucks and rifles. They came back soaking wet with no weapons and church ill is telling the paoeeople that wer now building up what will be the finest army in europe and we will go back. Host in 1940, mid 1940, he is Prime Minister of Great Britain. How big at that stage is the British Empire . Guest well, i
I found that fascinating. He was a victorian man. He made himself into a classical man. He lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. This godless ethic. I found that fascinating. I would enjoy talking with him about that. And then lets see. The second front. I would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. What does that mean second front . The push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. Franklin roosevelt, general marshall. We have to fight somewhere. It is an election year. Churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. The normandy invasion came in 1944. For that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. I would like to hear him tell me in his own words. In his memoirs, 10 years later writing these, he avoids writing about the squabbles. He does not even mention them. But