I was five years old when the War started. Almost eighty years later my memories of the next seven years were all over the place. I still recall Dunkirk and Tobruk Hitler and Chamberlain and Mussolini and Uncle Joe the air raid shelters and gas masks and searchlights and the tank traps on the beach. I could even remember the very short shirt tails that a perceptive Government decreed were necessary to win the War But it was all a jumble to me. If you asked me to give a coherent record of the sev