How Churchill Was Bullied Into D-Day - His Most Triumphant Achievement - By The Americans

Battling on: Churchill knew the D-Day battle marked the end of Britain's - and his own - supremacy on the world stage

From The Daily Mail:

The spring of 1944 found Churchill, in public at least, in typically rousing mood. 'The Germans will suffer very heavy casualties when our band of brothers gets among them,' he wrote to United States President Franklin Roosevelt, quoting Shakespeare's Henry V.

He was referring to their quickly advancing plans for Operation Overlord, the long-awaited Allied assault on the beaches of enemy-occupied France.

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My Comment: I disagree with many of the conclusions that this post tries to make .... but I still love reading it. I guess it is the frustrated historian in me who wished that he went into this field and not the sciences.