‘Operation Catapult’: A discussion of a new book by Bill Whiteside about the sinking of the French fleet at Mers-el-Kébir in July 1940
Jock Colville Hall Churchill College, CambridgeThe author will be in conversation with Allen Packwood, Director of the Churchill Archives Centre. The Associated Press called the Royal Navy’s July 1940 attack on the French fleet “the strangest of all naval actions in the world’s history,” and said Winston Churchill’s ensuing speech to the House of Commons was “like no other ever […]
