The power of Churchill’s speech still fires the imagination. In this moment of great danger, as Britain faced invasion, the Prime Minister and those around him remained confident that citizens would rise up and sacrifice everything for their country. The strategic calculus governing the Army’s deployment, later in the war, in the Middle East, Europe and the Far East, remained little different; the Empire would rely enormously on the ‘poor bloody infantry’, the ordinary citizen soldier, and his willingness, when called upon, to fight and if necessary die for the cause.