A perpetual Victorian, Churchill was too obsessed with England’s status as a great maritime power to understand that in the twentieth century war was about troops on the ground.
28 October 2021, The Tablet
Geoffrey Wheatcroft puts Churchill's reputation in the dock
Winston Churchill viewing the El Alamein positions in August 1942
Alamy, Hilary Morgan
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