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Whether Britain would have defeated fascism without him can never be known. What we do know is that Churchill carried the day by dint of his personality.
In '1942: Britain at the Brink,' historian Taylor Downing looks at bitter defeats for the UK that nearly threatened the empire, including Jews who took haven in Mandatory Palestine