Churchill's toughest decision

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In this episode of the History Extra podcast, Edward Abel Smith talks to Spencer Mizen about an episode that would shake Britain's wartime relations with France. Hello, Edward, thank you very much for joining me today. Your new book is called A Hateful Decision, and it tells the story of one of the most controversial decisions that Winston Churchill took as wartime prime minister. And that was to order the Royal Navy to attack the French fleet while it was moored at Mares el Kabir in July 1940. Now, this was an extraordinarily contentious act.

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