Feature

Why Chamberlain Really Fell

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

Tony Corfield | Published in History Today Volume 46 Issue 12 December 1996
The Second British Naval Action Off Narvik. 13 April 1940.
The Second British Naval Action Off Narvik. 13 April 1940. Admiralty Official Collection/IWM/Wiki Commons.

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