Remember.
Over 50 million people were killed in the Second World War—the equivalent of Britain's total population today.
Next Wednesday the final hour of Thames Television's series The World at War turns from the major campaigns and battles to examine what twentieth century total war meant to those who lived through it.
Often personal, sometimes simply statistical, and using film never screened before, the programme shows the enormity of the war. It emerges as a story of horror and humour ; of guilt and patriotic pride ; of intense comradeship and sudden death.
War continues today in many parts of the world. It is therefore fitting that the series ends with an exhortation, to old and young, to remember the victims of the years 1939 to 1945. On the twenty-ninth anniversary of VE Day.
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