James Holland

They're still growing.

They've got no battlefield experience.

The British are still recovering. They're good on the naval power. They're kind of increasingly good on air power. But land power, they've had to kind of make up from the loss of their ally France and expand as well.

The British are still recovering. They're good on the naval power. They're kind of increasingly good on air power. But land power, they've had to kind of make up from the loss of their ally France and expand as well.

The British are still recovering. They're good on the naval power. They're kind of increasingly good on air power. But land power, they've had to kind of make up from the loss of their ally France and expand as well.

The British are still recovering.

They're good on the naval power.

They're kind of increasingly good on air power.

But land power, they've had to kind of make up

from the loss of their ally France and expand as well.

So kind of ground zero for both America and Britain has been kind of June 1940 when France is out and suddenly that's the strategic earthquake and that's the issue that needs settling and they need to just completely realign everything that they'd fought in 1939. They've got to start again. But it also becomes clear that they're not really ready in 1943 either.

So kind of ground zero for both America and Britain has been kind of June 1940 when France is out and suddenly that's the strategic earthquake and that's the issue that needs settling and they need to just completely realign everything that they'd fought in 1939. They've got to start again. But it also becomes clear that they're not really ready in 1943 either.

So kind of ground zero for both America and Britain has been kind of June 1940 when France is out and suddenly that's the strategic earthquake and that's the issue that needs settling and they need to just completely realign everything that they'd fought in 1939. They've got to start again. But it also becomes clear that they're not really ready in 1943 either.

So kind of ground zero for both America and Britain has been kind of June 1940 when France is out and suddenly that's the strategic earthquake and that's the issue that needs settling and they need to just completely realign everything that they'd fought in 1939.

They've got to start again.

But it also becomes clear that they're not really ready in 1943 either.

And one of the problems is that Molotov, who is the Soviet foreign minister, has come over to Britain in May 1942 and said, you know, we need you to kind of do your bit and get on the campaign trail against the Germans and fight on the ground.

And one of the problems is that Molotov, who is the Soviet foreign minister, has come over to Britain in May 1942 and said, you know, we need you to kind of do your bit and get on the campaign trail against the Germans and fight on the ground. And the British are going, well, yeah, but, you know, cross-channel elevation is not really going to happen.

And one of the problems is that Molotov, who is the Soviet foreign minister, has come over to Britain in May 1942 and said, you know, we need you to kind of do your bit and get on the campaign trail against the Germans and fight on the ground. And the British are going, well, yeah, but, you know, cross-channel elevation is not really going to happen.

And one of the problems is that Molotov, who is the Soviet foreign minister, has come over to Britain in May 1942 and said, you know, we need you to kind of do your bit and get on the campaign trail against the Germans and fight on the ground. And the British are going, well, yeah, but, you know, cross-channel elevation is not really going to happen.