![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On Churchill was summoned to meet King George VI. We watch as Chamberlain suffers the humiliation of the Norway Debate in the House of Commons and as he attempts to cling to power in Number Ten Downing Street the following day. In this latest episode of Travels Through Time, the historian and biographer Andrew Roberts takes us back to those tense and dramatic days, 8. This political change coincided with the NAZI ‘blitzkrieg’ invasion of western Europe. It was replaced by a new regime of ‘growling defiance’, headed by the pugnacious and polarising Winston Churchill. Out went the undistinguished, dithering government led by Neville Chamberlain, known for its failed policy of appeasement. Click here to order Colin Jones’s book from John Sandoe’s who, we are delighted to say, are supplying books for the podcast.In seventy two hours in the middle of May 1940, Britain’s political leadership was transformed. ![]()
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