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History

The Battle of Britain: Britain’s Finest Hour

Fuelled by the euphoria of his successes thus far, Hitler was certain that the recently appointed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill would have no choice but to sue for peace.

He was wrong.

Churchill made it abundantly clear that Great Britain would never surrender to the Nazi tyranny.

That Hitler’s troops were going to have to fight for every square inch of the British Isles for in Churchill’s mind and the free world itself, surrender was simply not an option.

The first of a two-part special examines the story of the Battle of Britain.