CHURCHILL’S BITTERSWEET VICTORY
Mar 26, 2020
3 minutes
When Churchill awoke on 7 May, Captain Richard Pim, the naval officer in charge of his map room, told him that the Germans had surrendered. “For five years you’ve brought me bad news, sometimes worse than others,” Churchill remarked. “Now you have redeemed yourself.”
By this point, the public had become tired of repeated announcements, which were then contradicted, that peace was at hand. “Churchill had said previously that he wouldn’t hold up the news for a
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