Historian David Reynolds examines Winston Churchill's decision to battle in Italy and North Africa in 1942 rather than cross the English Channel.
Episode 1: His nation still reeling from the fall of France to the Nazis, Winston Churchill stirs controversy by deploying England's forces to North Africa.
Recorded by World at War
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