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The Truth About Winston Churchill - Andrew Roberts

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Empire Under Threat

The British Empire in the early 1930s faced significant challenges as it was morally weakened, financially strained, and strategically outmaneuvered by Japan, Italy, and Germany. These three countries gathering in the anti-Comintern Pact of 1937 posed imminent threats to the Empire in different geographical regions. Winston Churchill foresaw the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party and made impassioned speeches warning against the looming dangers, but his efforts went unheeded as the decade played out as a period of surrender and drift towards catastrophic events.

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