World War: Battle of Britain

"What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. . . . The whole fury and might of the enemy must very soon be turned upon us. Hitler knows he must break us in this island or lose the war. . . .

"If we fail, the whole world, including the United States, and all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister and perhaps more prolonged by the lights of a perverted science.

"Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty...

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