Don't mention the war!: Recent Episodes
Paul Gordon
A thoughtful, reflective, impartial and non-partisan look at one of the most consequential periods in modern history and its continuing legacy for today's world. Told by a British father and son.
A review of the book by John Kampfner which brilliantly captures how the legacy of the Second World War has helped shape modern Germany.
Australians shooting at Australians, Hitler's nephew, the Swiss air force, the Soviet class of 1923, the tragedy of Oradour-sur-Glane, the grizzly end of former SS commander Joachim Peiper, and the last German and Japanese soldiers to surrender (30 years later!)
South West England was one big staging area for the D-Day invasion of Normandy. We remember the impact and the legacy of these events upon the people of Devon and Cornwall, with my father's childhood memories of growing up in Truro during the war, and seasoned by some recent visits to the Normandy battlefields.