ww2

It seems a lost age and a foreign land, but growing up in the '70s one was surrounded by the 1940s. Most of the World War II veterans were still around, boys comics featured stirring war stories, TV featured war movies, still shown at bank holidays. My mum was an infant for most of it, but born in 1934, my dad remembered the war all too well. Sometimes you'd think he'd fought in it, even though he was just short of eleven when it finished. Victor comic was my entry drug to military history, although it should be noted that…