Battle of Britain 70th Anniversary 2010
LONDON, AUGUST 20TH— Seven decades to the day after Winston Churchill’s inspiring salute to the Royal Air Force as the Battle of Britain was reaching its height, Timothy Robert Hardy, the greatest actor ever to portray Churchill, delivered portions of the Prime Minister’s House of Commons speech containing the famous tribute: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.”
The original speech was a long overview of the war situation covering many events beside “the great air battle” raging in the skies over Britain.…