WWII Era Britains Also Regret What Their Country Has Become

Reflecting a sympathy found in America too, many of the British who fought to save their country and way of life during World War II find the country they now live in to be an unfortunate deviation from what they fought to preserve.

'This isn't the Britain we fought for,' say the 'unknown warriors' of WWII

In one letter in this collection, an RAF mechanic quoted a poem about comrades who fell in battle: 'I mourned them then, But now surviving in a world, Indifferent to their hopes and dreams, I grieve more for the living.'