As Herman Goring put it:.
"This moment is an historic one. As a result of the provocative British attacks on Berlin on recent nights the Fuhrer has decided to order a mighty blow to be struck in revenge against the capital of the British Empire. I personally have assumed leadership of this attack and today I have heard above me the roaring of the victorious German squadrons".
Herman Goring, Luftwaffe Command August 1940.
This new policy would in the end result in British victory. As the German tactics changes they allowed the RAF to regroup and reorganize their defenses. This resulted in catastrophic losses to the Luftwaffe and eventual German defeat.
RAF victory in this most critical battle prevented the German invasion that had seemed inevitable after the complete and total defeat of France. Because Britain remained free Hitler was unable to quash all resistance in Western Europe and was forced into the war that no German ruler has ever wanted or desired: A two front war of attrition. The dramatic turnaround from the infallible and indestructible blitzkriegs and total victories of the past several months to a long, slow, seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of enemies that would never give up and never surrender was orchestrated by perhaps the most iconic and respected statesmen in all of British history, Winston Churchill.
Winston Spencer Churchill was born in 1874 and died ninety years later in 1965. Twice Prime Minister, and active in British politics for sixty years he was also a soldier, an artist, a historian, and a journalist. He was characterized as a man of great mental energy, vivid imagination, and driving ambition. The frequent center of stormy political activity; criticism and abuse were often showered upon him. Yet at his death he was respected and mourned not only by his own nation, but by the world, for which he had done so much when he led the fight against Nazi tyranny and refused to surrender or to despair of victory.