Why Chamberlain really fell. (British leader Neville Chamberlain in 1940)

History Today | December 1, 1996| | Copyright

Tony Corfield offers a provocative new interpretation of the events that brought Churchill-to power in the spring of 1940.

The occasion of the fall from power of Neville Chamberlain and his replacement as prime minister by Winston Churchill in May 1940 is remembered as one of the few :Parliamentary epics of our history. British arms had just suffered a stinging reverse in Norway. In the two-day debate in the House of Commons of May 7th, and 8th, Sir Roger Keyes, in admiral's uniform complete with six rows of medal ribbons and the Grand Cross of the Bath, opened the ...

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