Robin Prior is a professor of history at Flinders University and the author or coauthor of several books, including Gallipoli: The End of the Myth and The Somme. He lives in Adelaide, Australia.
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From the comfortable distance of seven decades, it is quite easy to view the victory of the Allies over Hitler's Germany as inevitable. But in 1940 Great Britain's defeat loomed perilously close, and no other nation stepped up to confront the Nazi threat.... SEE MORE