What is your opinion of the popular myth and what is your interpretation of the battle?

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What  is your opinion of the popular myth and what is your interpretation of the battle?

From looking at all the relevant pieces of evidence my opinion of the popular myth is that it was right in what it was saying i.e. “the few” and “their finest hour”. For example I agree that without the British pilots victory may not have been ours, and I do take into consideration that the British were extremely outnumbered. However, I feel that by winning the Battle of Britain and then going on to win the war, it gave people a good reason to go on about the popular myth of why the British won. I feel therefore that by doing this and Churchill mentioning “the few” it was taken out of great context and greatly used to Britain’s advantage to show the public what great people we were and how everyone helped to do their bit in the war. I also think that the propaganda for this was extremely high and used to an advantage also because Churchill probably not even realising what effect it would have by saying a few effective well chosen words then realised what he had said and made full use of it.

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I do believe that they were the few pilots and it was their finest hour, and I myself being very interested in the war believe that they have every right to be praised for what they did. I therefore think that they do have every right to take it out of context and bend and stretch truths here and there if only to glorify themselves. After all if Churchill had not said what he has said then maybe it would have lowered the people’s morale and turned the whole situation around. I therefore think that there are many reasons as ...

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