Dan Snow

But soon we're going to run out of money, and I hope you won't make us pay at that point as well. So he lays it bare before the Americans. But the Americans, quite rightly, are thinking, we don't want to get involved in this war. This is Europe's war. This is a war of empires. It's a war of the old world. Here we are. We've just recovered from the Great Depression.

But soon we're going to run out of money, and I hope you won't make us pay at that point as well. So he lays it bare before the Americans. But the Americans, quite rightly, are thinking, we don't want to get involved in this war. This is Europe's war. This is a war of empires. It's a war of the old world. Here we are. We've just recovered from the Great Depression.

But soon we're going to run out of money, and I hope you won't make us pay at that point as well. So he lays it bare before the Americans. But the Americans, quite rightly, are thinking, we don't want to get involved in this war. This is Europe's war. This is a war of empires. It's a war of the old world. Here we are. We've just recovered from the Great Depression.

We've recovered from the wounds of the First World War. America is on its way to building the greatest, most powerful economy the world's ever seen. They don't want to get dragged into the past in some squabble in the European continent.

We've recovered from the wounds of the First World War. America is on its way to building the greatest, most powerful economy the world's ever seen. They don't want to get dragged into the past in some squabble in the European continent.

We've recovered from the wounds of the First World War. America is on its way to building the greatest, most powerful economy the world's ever seen. They don't want to get dragged into the past in some squabble in the European continent.

So Churchill has to make them believe, with his rhetoric, with his speeches, he has to make the Americans understand this is their fight because it's the fight of a free world against the horrors of Nazism. And he even says to Roosevelt, by the way, you're going to end up fighting Germany eventually.

So Churchill has to make them believe, with his rhetoric, with his speeches, he has to make the Americans understand this is their fight because it's the fight of a free world against the horrors of Nazism. And he even says to Roosevelt, by the way, you're going to end up fighting Germany eventually.

So Churchill has to make them believe, with his rhetoric, with his speeches, he has to make the Americans understand this is their fight because it's the fight of a free world against the horrors of Nazism. And he even says to Roosevelt, by the way, you're going to end up fighting Germany eventually.

You'd be a lot better off fighting Germany when you've still got a free and independent Britain on your side.

You'd be a lot better off fighting Germany when you've still got a free and independent Britain on your side.

You'd be a lot better off fighting Germany when you've still got a free and independent Britain on your side.

Lindsay, this is one of my favourite stories because it's really one of the areas of history where there is a powerful myth and that myth just is not true. The idea was that the German Air Force was so massive and powerful and terrifying, it dwarfed the RAF, the British Air Force, and the British fought this plucky underdog battle to win and protect their skies from German domination.

Lindsay, this is one of my favourite stories because it's really one of the areas of history where there is a powerful myth and that myth just is not true. The idea was that the German Air Force was so massive and powerful and terrifying, it dwarfed the RAF, the British Air Force, and the British fought this plucky underdog battle to win and protect their skies from German domination.

Lindsay, this is one of my favourite stories because it's really one of the areas of history where there is a powerful myth and that myth just is not true. The idea was that the German Air Force was so massive and powerful and terrifying, it dwarfed the RAF, the British Air Force, and the British fought this plucky underdog battle to win and protect their skies from German domination.

Now, that's a story that Brits quite like. It makes us sound kind of cool. It makes us sound plucky and exciting and tenacious. Actually, you know, the reality is completely the other way around. First of all, look at the aircraft.

Now, that's a story that Brits quite like. It makes us sound kind of cool. It makes us sound plucky and exciting and tenacious. Actually, you know, the reality is completely the other way around. First of all, look at the aircraft.

Now, that's a story that Brits quite like. It makes us sound kind of cool. It makes us sound plucky and exciting and tenacious. Actually, you know, the reality is completely the other way around. First of all, look at the aircraft.

Sure, the German air force was a bit bigger, but lots of those aircraft were obsolete or they weren't fit for the purpose of wresting air supremacy over southern England off the British.

Sure, the German air force was a bit bigger, but lots of those aircraft were obsolete or they weren't fit for the purpose of wresting air supremacy over southern England off the British.