The Battle of England and the Blitz (World War II)

Contrary to what is often claimed, the United Kingdom was never “completely alone” during World War II. It was not even during the year that it passed between France’s surrender in June 1940 and the invasion of the Soviet Union in the same month of 1941. And it was not because Canada, South Africa, India or Australia, its entire empire, were always by its side. Certainly that was a distant support, separated by thousands of nautical miles of Ger…