Nigel Harris grew up in England immediately after the Second World War. Steeped as he was in the history of that immense conflict and Britain's role in it, Harris has just recently come to fully understand the true nature…

When I was a young boy, I lived in a neighbourhood on the outermost edge of a post-Second World War baby boom growth spurt. The stolid houses of the idyllically named Elmvale Acres were just beginning to seem like they had been there for a while. In my first year of high school, I was aged 12 …