Now that I am less mobile with age, I watch a fair amount of television. Since I have never been interested in or addicted to soaps, I have turned more and more to history, to ‘Yesterday’ and other programmes of that type. The buildings of impossible railways and even more impossible bridges covering great expanses of water have caught my imagination and interest. Inevitably too I have been taken back to the Great War, much of which I witnessed and followed as a boy, as I was born in 1929 and thus was nine years old when the war started. Having lived through Dunkirk and then the Blitz, having been alive albeit as a schoolboy, having been evacuated from one place to another, having had a string of bombs dropped within a hundred yards of my school, having watched the Nazis march through the Balkans and across North Africa, having seen the German armies storm through Russia, it has always interested me to understand just how and why it all happened. It has interested me...(Read Full Article)