FDR & Churchill: A Friendship For the Ages with History Hit's Dan Snow | 1

736.909 - 758.234 Dan Snow

Yeah, this is very like the Battle of Britain. There's a useful myth here for the Brits, is that we are people that could just carry on and take it no matter what was thrown at us. A story of social cohesion. So elements of that myth are correct. The German Luftwaffe had come across, they tried to destroy the RAF, they tried to wrest control of the air above southern England in particular.