played so many recollections of men who fought and not only didn't regret it, but thought it was the right thing to do, a thoroughly worthwhile cause and something they would have done again given the chance.

A welcome antidote to the hippy 1960s pinko Wilfred Owen/Blackadder Goes Forth idea of the war we've been sold in which soldiers were all passive victims hoodwinked into fighting by their evil masters.

They clearly didn't feel that way about it. Hopefully, one day we can get rid of all the hand-wringing balls about the First World War and see it in a proper context.