Black's History Week

42: British forces on the offensive 1943-45


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Continuing our series on the performance of the British armed forces in the Second World War, Professor Jeremy Black discusses with The Critic's deputy editor, Graham Stewart, morale, naval firepower, the RAF's bombing offensive and the campaigns in Greece, Italy and Normandy.


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Image: 14th February 1940: A crew member of HMS Exeter, which bore the brunt of a battle with the German battleship 'Admiral Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic, giving the thumb's up on the ship's arrival in Plymouth, England. (Photo by Harrison /Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)


Music: Radetzky March by Human Symphony Orchestra (premiumbeat.com)


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