80 years on – the day the course of WW2 was decided

Churchill was first and foremost a politician accustomed to making political points.  There is an almost top heavy analysis of Battle of Britain WW2 opinion underpinned by scholarship and research and offered by such luminaries as Holland, Bungay, Bishop and Roberts, so  as to make a very convincing case for the strategically decisive nature of this most crucial battle of WW2.    

The result of WW1 came about as a consequence of the British Army offensive of August 1918 and the subsequent destruction of the Hindenburg Line.   The French Army was in mutiny and the Americans had had little time to make their battlefield presence felt.

I am merely restating Churchill’s view. He was far more the man on the spot than you or I, and hardly a “revisionist”. Much like WW1, WW2’s result was fixed the moment the USA entered the war.

Adrian

I think that you’re being overly generous.  There is no doubt that the outcome of WW2 was decided over the South East of England circa 1940.  The historical revisionists might disagree but that’s their problem.

The outcome of WW2 in the Pacific was ensured by Midway.