The Man who was voted the Greatest Briton!!!!

Winston Churchill let 1591 ordinary sailors drown after their ships were sunk off the coast of Norway in WW2 by German battle cruisers. Churchill thought a rescue attempt might have alerted the Germans to the evacuation of the Norwegian royal family, so ordered ships in the area to abandon the drowning men. Today’s footnote would be the sinking of the Russian Kursk submarine; sailors drowned as President Putin put national pride before the need to call in foreign rescue teams.

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in his address to the country after the war he FORGOT
to mention the part taken in the conflict by the Merchant Navy

not all the time

Sixty million died in WWII. Head counts lost their perspective.
Winston Churchill was an arrogant, egotistical bastard.
That's what was required to win the war.

Greatest Briton no; right man for the job at the time, yes.

I think the poll you are probably talking about was the one the BBC ran in early 2003-ish. Second in that poll was Princess Diana.
Says a lot!

Hey, I never typed bastid!!