James Holland

Suddenly he's there.

And what happens is Britain doesn't really do anything.

It's very difficult working with France because France is so politically fractured that they can't make any decisions.

When you can't make any decisions, you're just impotent.

And so Churchill first mentions going into Norway, mining the Leeds. So the idea is that you're making life very difficult for the Germans to get iron ore out of Sweden, their main source. Their main source of iron ore is up in the northern part of Sweden in the Arctic Circle.

And so Churchill first mentions going into Norway, mining the Leeds. So the idea is that you're making life very difficult for the Germans to get iron ore out of Sweden, their main source. Their main source of iron ore is up in the northern part of Sweden in the Arctic Circle.

And so Churchill first mentions going into Norway, mining the Leeds. So the idea is that you're making life very difficult for the Germans to get iron ore out of Sweden, their main source. Their main source of iron ore is up in the northern part of Sweden in the Arctic Circle.

And so Churchill first mentions going into Norway, mining the Leeds.

So the idea is that you're making life very difficult for the Germans to get iron ore out of Sweden, their main source.

Their main source of iron ore is up in the northern part of Sweden in the Arctic Circle.

It then goes on a railway through northern tip of Norway and then gets shipped down the west coast of Norway into Germany, into the Baltic. So Churchill suggests in September 1939, why don't we mine the Leeds, which are the Leeds are these passageways out of the fjords in the north into the North Sea. Why don't we mine those and stop the Germans from...

It then goes on a railway through northern tip of Norway and then gets shipped down the west coast of Norway into Germany, into the Baltic. So Churchill suggests in September 1939, why don't we mine the Leeds, which are the Leeds are these passageways out of the fjords in the north into the North Sea. Why don't we mine those and stop the Germans from...

It then goes on a railway through northern tip of Norway and then gets shipped down the west coast of Norway into Germany, into the Baltic. So Churchill suggests in September 1939, why don't we mine the Leeds, which are the Leeds are these passageways out of the fjords in the north into the North Sea. Why don't we mine those and stop the Germans from...

It then goes on a railway through northern tip of Norway and then gets shipped down the west coast of Norway into Germany, into the Baltic.

So Churchill suggests in September 1939, why don't we mine the Leeds, which are the Leeds are these passageways out of the fjords in the north into the North Sea.

Why don't we mine those and stop the Germans from...

taking this.

Everyone goes, well, yeah, that's quite a good idea, but they can't decide. And French are nervous that if they do that, the Germans retaliate and bomb France and all this kind of stuff. So no decision is made until kind of April 1940. They go up to start mining the Leeds on exactly the same day that the Germans invade Denmark and Norway. And so they're called off guards.

Everyone goes, well, yeah, that's quite a good idea, but they can't decide. And French are nervous that if they do that, the Germans retaliate and bomb France and all this kind of stuff. So no decision is made until kind of April 1940. They go up to start mining the Leeds on exactly the same day that the Germans invade Denmark and Norway. And so they're called off guards.

Everyone goes, well, yeah, that's quite a good idea, but they can't decide. And French are nervous that if they do that, the Germans retaliate and bomb France and all this kind of stuff. So no decision is made until kind of April 1940. They go up to start mining the Leeds on exactly the same day that the Germans invade Denmark and Norway. And so they're called off guards.