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The crises facing Churchill
A defiant Churchill's cabinet implodes over Hitler's peace offer and the British Expeditionary Force retreats to Dunkirk. King George VI calls for a national day of prayer as Britain stands alone against the Nazis.
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Churchill rejects Hitler's offer of peace
In May 1940 Churchill refused to consider an armistice with Hitler's Germany.
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