Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat Themes

Britain had declared war on Germany after the Germans invaded Poland in September 1939. But not much happened on the western front for the next eight months. Brits called it the "phoney war." They...

Generally, when people are at war with a country run by fascists with a massive army and a psychotic, homicidal dictator, they worry. In this speech, you can see/hear Churchill addressing his audie...

Nazis. We hate those guys. Churchill did, too.World War II has been characterized as a battle between good (the Allies) and evil (the Axis powers, especially the Nazis). Unlike other controversial...

There was a lot changing for Great Britain in 1939-1940. The war they'd been trying to avoid for years had begun, which led to the resignation of their highest-level government official. Britain wa...