Battle fatigue: will British cinema's second world war obsession ever end?

Two more war film are about to hit our screens, and while we can't seem to wean ourselves off them, the best capture a complex reality Are you British and reading this piece at the age of 94? If so, as you will know, you may actually have fought in the second world war. Widen the metric to anyone born by the end of the conflict, and the demographic swells: 76 and up. Even so, the greater part of the country could only know the era through parents, grandparents or grandparents' parents. Yet Janua...