Winston Churchill

Just three months earlier, in Cairo, Egypt, Churchill had exclaimed, Rommel, Rommel, Rommel, what else matters but beating him?

It is not even the beginning of the end.

But it is perhaps the end of the beginning.

The End

What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over.

I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin.

Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization.

Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of our institutions and our empire.

The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us.

Hitler knows that he will have to break out in this island or lose the war.

If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free.

and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.

But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age, made more sinister and perhaps more protracted by the lights of perverted science.

Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties and so bear ourselves that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say this was their finest hour.

The gratitude of every home in our island, in our empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty.

goes out to the British airmen, who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of world war by their prowess and by their devotion.

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many.

To so few.

But Dominic, as Churchill's words suggest...

Goering's men are not having things their own way.