Like you, we Brits were mortally afraid of a replay of WWI and only got into the war because we were forced. First we tried appeasement and then we let Hitler get away with invading Czechoslovakia- "a far-off country of which we know nothing"- as Chamberlain so gracelessly put it.
Another thing that gets overlooked in the D Day celebrations is that the war was actually won by the Russians.
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Date: 2004-06-10 02:07 am (UTC)Like you, we Brits were mortally afraid of a replay of WWI and only got into the war because we were forced. First we tried appeasement and then we let Hitler get away with invading Czechoslovakia- "a far-off country of which we know nothing"- as Chamberlain so gracelessly put it.
Another thing that gets overlooked in the D Day celebrations is that the war was actually won by the Russians.