I guess it's like when you get pushed by a bully.
If you stumble and go down you've lost. If you manage to keep your dignity and can hold your head up high, it doesn't matter what happens next, you've won.
Britain kept her head up high, she managed to go onto a back foot and get enough time to take a breath and plan what her next move would be.
Nobody questions whether the Battle of Britain was a close thing, it was!, If it wasn't for the incompetance of the Germans in command, it could have gone horribly differently, yet the fact remains that due to the bravery of the 'Few', (most of them only kids in their 20's) that had to get into the Hurricanes and Spitfires, serveral times a day in many cases, the world would be an entirely different (and much worse) place today.
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