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Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax, photographed in 1944 by Yousuf Karsh. © Dutch National Archives / Karsh of Ottawa. Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 NL.

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Goalhanger

9 Jun, 2025

WW2 Pod We Have Ways

56 mins

BEF (British Expeditionary Force)

Leadership

Blitzkrieg

Battle of France

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British Army

1940

Dunkirk Evacuation

Wehrmacht

How did the split between Churchill and Halifax decide the outcome of the Second World War? When did the Belgian king decide to surrender to Germany? Why did politicians rally around Churchill and his calls for no surrender? Join James Holland and Al Murray for Part 3 of this Dunkirk series as they deep dive into the intense cabinet debates of Churchill, Chamberlain, and Halifax in May 1940 - the closest time Britain came to surrendering to Nazi Germany in WW2.

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James Holland

Historian, writer, and podcaster, specialises in World War II and hosts "We Have Ways" podcast.

Al Murray

Al Murray, comedian, writer, and historian, co-hosts the WWII podcast We Have Ways of Making You Talk and writes on

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