Britain at Bay by Alan Allport

Author:Alan Allport [Allport, Alan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 2020-11-03T00:00:00+00:00

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How would ordinary Britons respond if the invader came? Churchill, of course, offered little doubt in his public statements:

I can easily understand how sympathetic onlookers across the Atlantic […] may have feared for our survival when they saw so many States and kingdoms torn to pieces in a few weeks or even days by the monstrous force of the Nazi war machine. But Hitler has not yet been withstood by a great nation with a will power the equal of his own. Many of these countries had been poisoned by intrigue before they were struck down by violence. They had been rotted from within before they were smitten from without […]

But here, in our Island, we are in good health and in good heart […]

Should the invader come to Britain, there will be no placid lying down of the people in submission before him, as we have seen, alas, in other countries. We shall defend every village, every town, and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

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