James Holland

Britain was the number one nation in the world at that time, and it just was.

And it's so diminished by comparison today that it's hard to imagine it. And I think one of the interesting things about the historiography, about the narrative of how we tell World War II, is that so much of it has been dictated by the shift in power that took place subsequent to 1945.

And it's so diminished by comparison today that it's hard to imagine it. And I think one of the interesting things about the historiography, about the narrative of how we tell World War II, is that so much of it has been dictated by the shift in power that took place subsequent to 1945.

And it's so diminished by comparison today that it's hard to imagine it. And I think one of the interesting things about the historiography, about the narrative of how we tell World War II, is that so much of it has been dictated by the shift in power that took place subsequent to 1945.

And it's so diminished by comparison today that it's hard to imagine it.

And I think one of the interesting things about the historiography, about the narrative of how we tell World War II, is that so much of it has been dictated by the shift in power that took place subsequent to 1945.

And when people were starting to write these sort of major narratives in the 1970s and 80s and into the 1990s, it's through a prism of a very, very different world.

And when people were starting to write these sort of major narratives in the 1970s and 80s and into the 1990s, it's through a prism of a very, very different world.

And when people were starting to write these sort of major narratives in the 1970s and 80s and into the 1990s, it's through a prism of a very, very different world.

And when people were starting to write these sort of major narratives in the 1970s and 80s and into the 1990s, it's through a prism of a very, very different world.

And so one of the reasons why you have this narrative that, you know, Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirt tails of the Americans and, you know, all the blood was spelt in Eastern Front and, you know, Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah. You know, that kind of sort of traditional narrative, it's...

And so one of the reasons why you have this narrative that, you know, Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirt tails of the Americans and, you know, all the blood was spelt in Eastern Front and, you know, Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah. You know, that kind of sort of traditional narrative, it's...

And so one of the reasons why you have this narrative that, you know, Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirt tails of the Americans and, you know, all the blood was spelt in Eastern Front and, you know, Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah. You know, that kind of sort of traditional narrative, it's...

And so one of the reasons why you have this narrative that, you know, Britain was a bit rubbish and hanging on the shirt tails of the Americans and, you know, all the blood was spelt in Eastern Front and, you know, Germany had the best army in the world and was only defeated because Hitler was mad and blah, blah, blah.

You know, that kind of traditional narrative, it's...

That narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s.

That narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s. So there is this moment of decision.

That narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s. So there is this moment of decision.

That narrative emerges through the prism of what was going on in the 1970s and what was going on in the 1980s and the changing world, rather than looking at it through the prism of the late 1930s or early 1940s. So there is this moment of decision.

So there is this moment of decision.