The human reasons of the victory.

 

 

Although British cities had been very much bombed by the German attacks, the civilians never lost heart. The Home guard, created in 1940, was  composed of men and women who wanted to protect England from the invasion. Their first role was to help the firemen during bombings and to prepare themselves to face a potential German landing on Britain. All these people were motivated by the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, who had understood that staying brave was the most important thing to do. Actually, the English never lost heart, and that’s perhaps why England won the Battle of Britain.

 

However, pilots took also a great part in the English victory. All the pilots were brave: they were used to flying more than once a day, and many of them died during dangerous missions. That’s why lots of pilots didn't have much experience. But the RAF raids against German bombers were very efficient, and the British pilots were important in the victory.

 

 

 

One of Churchill’s speech about the beginning of the Battle of Britain:

“What General Weygand has called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilisation. Upon it depends our own British life, and the long continuity of our institutions and our Empire. The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned on us. Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose the war. IIf we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free and the life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands. But if we fail, then the whole world, including teh United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if teh British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say. This was their finest hour."

 

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