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#196 Winston Churchill (Leadership during WW2)

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I started thinking about London and the German aerial salt of nineteen forty and nineteen forty one. and wondered how on earth anyone could have endured it. Fifty seven consecutive nights of bombing. Followed by an intensifying series of nighttime raids over the next six months. In particular, I thought about Winston Churchill.

How did he withstand it? And his family. And his friends. What was it like for him to have his city bombed for nights on end and to know full well That these air raids

However horrific. were likely only a preamble to far worse. A German invasion from the sea and sky. I decided to find out. and quickly that it is one thing to say carry on.

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