This week we bought four DVD’s of World War Two
not news reels or documentaries but film
for the theatre made just after the war and based on war books written by or
about RAF personnel to give me a flavour of the times. The films were the
Battle of Britain, Dam Busters, 633 Squadron and Reach for the Sky. Together
they give a very favourable picture of the war if you’re British however we
know from our time in Germany the general population there had their troubles
too. I hope to pick this up in the chapter I’m researching now as one of my
characters has the miss fortune to be shot down. But I want to try to give both
sides a fair showing, it wasn’t particularly easy for the average man and woman
in the street to avoid being caught up in some of the desperate plans of the
Nazi party not as participants but even as bystanders.
The research
I have done so far has been fascinating in itself, war is a terrible thing for
the people of all the involved countries and the way they faced it, to the
solutions they found. The other night we watched Battle of Britain and in it
the air raid siren gave the warning of attack, both Mike and I felt a cold deep
disturbance in our stomachs it’s amazing after so many years it still haunts
you.
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