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Originally posted by timetraveler:
I wonder if anyone has ever bothered to try & set their stories down before they're all gone & that part of history becomes just so much mythology to future generations?
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Funny you should say that tt
The same thoughts went through my mind when, whilst researching for my posting I spotted this DVD that is now on my christmas wish list
http://www.amazon.com/Finest-Hour-Britain-Will-Lym... 
I had at the time just watched the wonderful MGM film of the Battle Of Britain
and I immediately thought that this PBS/BBC documentary that I have never seen would make a fine companion
Two of the reviews are spot on your ideas!!:-
"Simply said, Finest Hour is one of the best documentaries on the Battle of Britain. Combining impeccable narration, personal accounts, and stunning footage--some previously unseen--it exceeds even PBS's typically high standards. It is both a collection of personal stories--interspersed with inspiring and often touching reports from men and women who were there--and a tale of the behind-the-scenes relationship between Churchill and Roosevelt."
and another
"The film uses survivors..."ordinary blokes" as one will call himself, to tell the story of young men and women, thrust into a war that they themselves thought might be the end of the world as they knew it."
amazon offer buy both together for $34.98
My BOB copy was a bargain in our local supermarket a couple of years back at $4.99