Sunday, February 8, 2015

28th March, Our Finest Hour, By Mark Ademola Israel

On 18 June, 1940, Wilson Churchill delivered a speech at the British House of Commons. This speech, Their Finest Hour, was delivered two days after the German forces recorded huge successes in France and were certain to invade Britain. "The Battle of France is over," declared General Maxime Weygand, the man who was called upon - two weeks too late - to Ward off the German invasion, when it was clear they'd lost.