Comment by eropple

The Blitz was huge. It was terrible. It was also across a channel. He's talking about ground-level, street-to-street fighting, where you see men clomp into the town in which you live and remake your society, and that's very arguably a difference of kind. Britain has not seen fighting on its soil that was not internecine in the better part of a thousand years (honorable mention to the French who bailed on Fishguard Bay, though). The countries he's talking about were stomped on in living memory.