WW2: The Great Imperial War
Dan Snow's History Hit
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What's the Difference Between British Strategy and Sycamore War?
It's a paradox actually, that the man chosen to defend democracy an ereticalmess was churchill. And there's no doubt that churchill's view of british strategy and sycamore war is very coloured. Bu desired not to lose the asian empire, to retain a grip on the middle east - ta kind of hub between the asian Empire and the european one. He also wanted to defeat the italians in east africa, to fight the war in other people's territory,. All this was, of course, to make sure that british global power was retained. If they d just abandoned that, as they could have done, they would have
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