Army Dreamers: A Backwards Salute to British Army Recruitment Films
(Originally appeared in The Guardian August, 2010) As a boy growing up in the 1960s and 70s I was raised to fight the Second World War all over again. Airfix models. Commando comics. Air tattoos in June. Watching The Battle of Britain and The Longest Day on telly with my dad,… Read More »Army Dreamers: A Backwards Salute to British Army Recruitment Films