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In article , fred
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John le Carre quote

To hear Brexiters claiming that Britain won the war single-handedly is, he
says, €œemetic€�. €œThe wonderful rightwing military historian Max Hastings
points out that we were bad fighters, that we were extremely badly
organised, and our contribution in terms of blood and wealth and material
was €“ I cant say trivial, but tremendously small by comparison to the
sacrifices of the other major powers. Russia lost, what, 30 million men?
And in treasure, heaven knows what. We didnt win the war in that sense.
We were on the winning side by the end, but we were really quite minor
players.€�

I've never heard anyone claim we won the war single handed.
Russia' losses were terrific partly because of their own disorganisation
and partly because Stalin regarded his people as dispensable, much like
the Chinese did in Korea, but that's socialists for you.

On the other hand we did beat the Japanese in Burma largely single handed.

Nope.