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August 20, 1940.

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

One hot summer forty years ago, a small Island of free men and women stood firm and alone against the onslaught of the dark forces of tyranny. Great Britain. August 20, 1940. Winston Churchill addresses the houses of Parliament and the people of Great Britain. Dunkirk has already fallen. The British army fled France, beaten by a German onslaught the likes of which the world had never seen. The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the United States' entry into the war was still more than three months away. With Europe enslaved, Britain stood alone. On June 18, 1940, Churchill told the nation and the world that the Battle for France was over and The Battle for Britain was about to begin. In perhaps his most famous speech, Churchill summed up what was at stake:But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science...continue to full post

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