This is revisionism at its very finest.

Not least because, we knew that John Maynard Keynes lobbied hard to have the debt reduced on behalf of the Atlee government and also because the Americans took full advantage of Article VII of the Lend-Lease Act to get Britain to open its colonies to American good..

To understand the points made, read the legacy of empire by Caroline Elkins.

Neville Chamberlain was no near smart enough to hold off Hitler while rearming Britain in the 30s.

And Hitler did make the cardinal error of invading Russia, failing to learn the lessons Napoleon made a century earlier.