In 1939, I didn’t hear war coming. Now its thundering approach can’t be ignoredHarry Leslie Smith
As a teenager I would just laugh at newsreels of Hitler and other fascists. I hope what happened next is not witnessed again by my grandchildren’s generation •
Author Harry Leslie Smith, 94, is a second world war RAF veteran‘I catch a fearful resemblance to the faces of the young from my generation in the summer of 1939.’ Shop mannequins blown onto the pavement after a bombing raid on London. Photograph: Planet News Archive/SSPL via Getty Images
Tuesday 15 August 2017
A chill of remembrance has come over me during this August month. It feels as if the 2017 summer breeze is being scattered by the winds of war blowing from across our world towards Britain, just like they were in 1939.
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