There is absolutely no awareness of these issues in the UK but that photo was on the front page of the most widely read newspaper five years ago. There are man

There is absolutely no awareness of these issues in the UK but that photo was on the front page of the most widely read newspaper five years ago. There are many things wrong with the UK's view of its own history but the major problem with its understanding of the war is its self image as a plucky underdog. It is absolutely not about a "nationalist myth of pushback against Germany as a virile and potent competing empire". If anything Britain has been at fault for forgetting about its Empire and the moral problems that came with that.