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Thread #147734 Message #3435788
Posted By: Keith A of Hertford
13-Nov-12 - 09:52 AM
Thread Name: BS: Vilnai: inflict a 'shoah' on Gaza
Subject: RE: BS: Vilnai: inflict a 'shoah' on Gaza
Don, WW2 Hisory.com
After the fall of France in June 1940, one stark fact was clear. Without the ability to receive large quantities of material from North America, Britain was doomed. This meant, of course, that the subsequent 'Battle of the Atlantic' was one of the most decisive battles of the entire conflict.
'Churchill himself said at the time,' says Professor David Reynolds, 'and certainly says in his memoirs, that he wasn't really afraid of invasion in 1940. He could imagine the possibility of big raids or something like that on the east coast, but a full scale invasion was less worrying to him than the biggest fear that he had all through the war, which was that Britain's sea lanes would be cut off, and that the country would eventually be starved into submission.