Spring of 1941. Less than a year after the Nazis took Paris, Western Europe belongs to Hitler. To the east, the Soviet Union is a much weaker force and still Germany's ally. In the U.S., isolationism, with pro-German sympathy in certain quarters, keeps the free world's greatest power out of the war. All that stands in Hitler's way is the British part of the English-speaking world.
At the time the Royal Navy was still peerless, if too small. On land, Britain had only partly rearmed following its post-World War I disarmament. Australia, Canada and New Zealand contributed to Churchill's stand, but it was India that allowed Britain to compete in the global conflict.
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