Andrew Chatterton

Yeah.

All your troops have come back.

There's no, they haven't got any vehicles because they had to leave them on the beaches.

Very few weapons.

There is regulars and there are regulars and regular soldiers and territorial army soldiers in Britain ready to face invasion.

But essentially, from that hindsight, it's very good.

But at that point, you've seen a German army sweep through, take Holland, Belgium, France, it's anxious with Austria, invaded Poland, invaded Czechoslovakia, invaded Norway.

All of this stuff had happened without seemingly being able to stop them.

It seemed like a super machine.

And so from a British perspective, especially from a civilian perspective, you're looking at that and you're like, we haven't got a chance.

There's no chance that they're not going to invade because they've done all of that.

There's no chance.

The saving grace we have is the channel.

You know, obviously without that, they could have just come straight over.

So yeah, absolutely a real threat of invasion.

Yeah.

Especially in that kind of summer to, you know, October 1940, that period is crucial.

But equally, you know,

Germany invaded Russia a year later.

But even if, you know, that first part of the German advance into Russia, they were taking like hundreds of miles a day.