The Few were Britain's first line of defence in 1940, not its last; the story that they alone stood between Britain and the Nazi hordes is rubbish.

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• The familiar narrative of the war — useless Britain, the world's best German army beaten only because Hitler was mad — is an artefact of how the world looked in the 1970s and 1980s, not of how it looked in 1939. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• Britain and France's refusal to negotiate seriously with the Soviet Union in the summer of 1939 was the great missed opportunity to snooker the Third Reich. JHJames Holland24 May 2025
• Britain alone in Europe needed no large standing army, because a competent navy meant no army could ever reach its shores. SPSarah Paine9 Jun 2026
• The fall of France in 1940 was half German operational brilliance and half French failure and incompetence. JHJames Holland24 May 2025

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