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Churchill part 2: Inside the Enigma Machine
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The Crisis That Brings Down Chamberlain in May 1940
The crisis that brings down Chamberlain in May 1940 is this sort of debacle in Norway, which one historian actually said, he inspired Germany to speed up its invasion. And Churchill writes, it was a marvel that I survived and maintained my position in public esteem and parliamentary confidence. The truth really doesn't lie with Churchill. It lies with Halifax, the foreign secretary or Halifax. That stomachache, I think, saves Western civilization. But for several senior historians, that's that anxiety moment where he thinks, I don't know if I can do this. He sits in silence. Now, at four o'clock in the afternoon, they then called Churchill in, they're having a meeting. They
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