Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend Itself in the Second World War Grehan John
Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend Itself in the Second World War Grehan John After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people…
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Stopping Hitler: An Official Account of How Britain Planned to Defend Itself in the Second World War Grehan John
After the unprecedented death and devastation of the First World War, few people imagined that such a conflict could ever happen again. Consequently, the British Government concluded that there would not be another war in the foreseeable future and therefore the country's armed forces could be correspondingly scaled back.The rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s, however, prompted politicians and military leaders to contemplate the frightening prospect of another global conflict. Though the belief that it had been the 'war to end war' was to be shattered within a generation, in the immediate aftermath of the First World War it was expected that international disputes could be settled by arbitration through the creation of League of Nations.
The Chiefs of Staff of the three Services were instructed to bring Britain's armed forces up to a standard where they could resist a
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