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Maybe 10 or 20, chose not to go. They thought the war is over, we lost and they went home back to their farms. How they fared no one knows. Host whether was your reaction in Great Britain to dunkirk . Guest churchill and churchill did this he made a defeat sound as if it was the ost heroic and he saeid evacuations, retreats are not victories, he was clear on this. But the way he said it made dunkirk sound like a heroic victory. And the british people came away saying, well, if we can do that, we can bloody well whip the hun. Well, they had it backwards. They were running, swimming literally, home without their weapons, without their tanks and jeeps they didnt have generals then but trucks and rifles. They came back soaking wet with no weapons and church ill is telling the paoeeople that wer now building up what will be the finest army in europe and we will go back. Host in 1940, mid 1940, he is Prime Minister of Great Britain. How big at that stage is the British Empire . Guest well, i

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