Blog for Week Kyu

It's great to play armchair quarterback on the mondays following an NFL weekend, I do all the time; much like parents always telling me I should have done this or that in a game the night before (usually having to deal with how thier daughter should have played more). Werent the Brits always telling Generals Marshall and Eisenhower that an invasion in Europe in '42 and '43 was not only foolish, but showed how the Americans were new to a World War event...and they were right. But they (British High COmmand Generals)were wrong in wanting to back up Churchills plans in attacking the soft underbelly of the Germans through Italy. When things turn out the way you say they are going too after the fact, anyone can look like a prophet or someone who should have been listened to more. Churchill you can say was in the right place at the right time, and I think that is what the author is saying. This Grand Alliance in '41 came because the circumstances were different than in '38 when appeasement probably saved more lives than not. No one trusted the Russians, the Americans really had no reason to join in an effort to go to war in Europe, and France was confused; The Brits stood alone in '38, and Chamberlain knew it. You can write hitory books after the fact, like Churchill did, and make it sound like you knew what you were talking about before the fact; but like I've always said, history is written by the victors, and the author is pointing out the Churchill did exactly that.