History man pours scorn on ‘Churchill’

THE forthcoming movie Churchill — starring Brian Cox as the iconic wartime leader in the days before the normandy landings of June 1944 — has been subjected to a preliminary bombardment by historian andrew roberts.

roberts is unable to award it top marks — or, many marks at all, pointing out, for instance, that Churchill made his ‘We shall never surrender’ speech ‘in 1940, not in 1944 when there was no danger of invasion’.

nor, adds roberts, who is writing a new biography of Churchill, did Winston attempt to widen the scope of the invasion — and nor did he ‘fight the war dressed in white tie’, wearing it only once a year at the lord Mayor of london’s Mansion House dinner.

oh dear. and that’s just from the two-and-a-half minute trailer.