Invasion and the Battle of Britain

‘Now we know where we are’, yelled a tugboat skipper across the Thames, ‘no more bloody allies!’ ¹ ‘Very well, alone!’ shouted David Low’s cartoon soldier from the White Cliffs of Dover, shaking his fist across the Channel. ² But the fall of France upset all the calculations on which Britain had based her strategy for fighting a war with Germany. If the bombing which Britain was to endure later in the war was actually a great deal less disastrous than had been forecast before the war, the situation in the summer of 1940 was infinitely worse than anything that had been expected.