Churchill's Southern Strategy

摘要

After the evacuation of the Brit ish Expeditionary Force from Dunkirk in June 1940 and the Lsubsequent fall of France, Nazi Germany held uncontested control　of Western Europe. When the Germans failed in their attempt to capture the British Isles, they turned their attention toward the east and drove to the outskirts of Moscow before the Red Army counteroffensive began in December 1941.