Trafalgar Square’s cheering crowds belied a grim reality for the citizens of Great Britain in 1945. The British economy was in ruins, the empire spent, its global influence waning before that of the United States and the Soviet Union. Before the summer of 1945 ended the Churchill government, symbol of British defiance, was out. By […]
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