Andy Chatterton

means that then we can use the limited mobility that we've got much more effectively.

The Germans will always go with the least path of the resistance.

So by pushing them around the pillboxes, by pushing them around the tiger's teeth, we can much better utilize the limited amounts of tanks and vehicles we have to more effectively counterattack.

Exactly right, exactly right.

And I inside at the time got a...

Large amount of criticism, and continues today.

But actually, I think he was utilising the resources he had at that point really well, really well.

And it's almost like an Iron Age hill fort, where the defensive channel the attackers in the direction where you want them to go, and therefore you know where they're going up, and therefore you can attack them in the place you're happy to.

Exactly right, exactly right.

So as you say, the whole of the south is covered in these concrete boxes, which, as I said, look pretty rubbish, but actually would have been a really effective way of stopping them.

It's an interesting question because the fall of France has happened.

Germany is uproariously happy.

It's gone far better than they could ever, ever have expected.

And then suddenly they have this challenge of the channel, of the moats that we've got.

And Hitler's plan isn't just one plan, and this is the trouble.

He asked the Navy, the Air Force and the Army to come up with their own separate plans.

Each one is slightly contradictory to the other.

Goering's ultimately confident that he can destroy the Royal Air Force to give the mayor superiority.

He doesn't think that's going to be a problem.

He's kind of seen the Battle of France and, to an extent, the RAF.