Jack
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"Not my area really but was there also a sense that the working class Brits had fought two very costly wars and wanted the Victorian world that Churchill represented swept away once and for all? No reflection on Churchill intended, for he is rightly considered as one of the towering figures of history."
Possible 'thread-jack' but indeed, was there a greater 'Briton' in history??
Unlikely given that he might well be considered, with Roosevelt, as one of the two great figures of the 20th century from any country. This is predicated on the assumption that people equally as influential such as Hitler and Stalin are discounted. If I can thread jack your thread jacking, if there was no Hitler, there would have been a much less important Churchill. Without an opponent one's opportunities for greatness are limited. If Hitler was a product of circumstance, rather than a shaper of events, was Churchill equally a product of his time, or did he impose his will on events?