[klem]

Ever compared 'Pearl Harbour' with 'Tora Tora Tora'? I'm not saying TTT was a perfect representation of history but it was better than the Mills & Boone PH version.

One film I would like to see made is of the book "Dunkirk - the men they left behind". I met one if them last year and read the book as a result. Some of the things that happened on the forced march to Germany were as bad as some of the Japanese stories. Well, perhaps its better left in the past. I don't suppose any side was whiter than white.

As we're considering fiction and reality I am reading a book called "74 Squadron" written by Ira "Taffy" Jones and published in 1954. It even has 3/6d printed into the cover (that's 17.5P to the newer guys). Its a no-punches-pulled view of his former enemy by a man whose life was blighted by two world wars. He flew in the 74 "Tigers" Squadron with Mannock in WWI and there was none of that chivalry business. "Send then down sizzling" (Mannock), shooting parachuting Balloon spotters, strafing enemy aircrew when they crash landed and the German pilots were the same apparently. He carried his own personal hatred into WWII when he was in command of Training establishments and trained guys like Sailor Malan who he feels didn't pull any punches either. It probably wouldn't be printed today, not PC.