Max Hastings: ‘Churchill’s words in 1940 were courageous – Burnham should learn from them’

As he publishes a riveting new history of the end of the Second World War, Sir Max Hastings takes aim at the PM… brace yourself for explosionsIn the wake of the Dunkirk evacuation in May and June of 1940, during which more than 338,000 men escaped death or capture, the atmosphere on the home front was, according to the historian Sir Max Hastings, somewhat febrile.