Thermo:
Your letters, although interesting, are describing well known internal struggles for power within the British government in the beginning of 1942. This was during one of Britain’s darkest hours and the British, both their leaders and the people, once again rose magnificently to the challenge.
What I fail to see is how this in the remotest way could be significant to your post regarding 44-45.
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In a nut shell, governments do not make war, Nations make war. And as citizens, we are all libel for the actions of our nations. The allies knew that the Germans were on the verge of a fission bomb, and they knew that the V5 (4?) was a few technical problems away from flying to the eastern seaboard of the US. The Allies were in no position to not press their advantage once they had gained it. Also, people tend to forget that England was done for by 1944-45. Two major wars in less than thirty years had gutted her manpower, and the people at home were very tired of war. The V1’s and V2’s had driven moral down to levels not seen since 1940-41, and the fiasco that was Market Garden had spent a vast portion of her offensive capability. Also there was the issue of supplying the troops on the continent, their maximum numbers were dependant on how many tons of supply that could be trucked to them from the few working docks on the coast.
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[ February 20, 2004, 08:12: Message edited by: primitive ]