Tim Bouverie, the author of the best study of the Origins of World War II, Appeasement: Chamberlain, Churchill, Hitler and the Road to War (2019), has continued his analysis of the conflicts and ...
The destruction of the French fleet at Mers el-Kébir, Algeria, by the Royal Navy in July 1940 was both Britain’s first victory of the second world war and its most distasteful. Winston Churchill had ...