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It is often said that the war of 1939-45 was much more of a dividing line between generations now alive than any other experience. As a statement it is accurate as far as it goes. What it fails to recognize is that the years 1939-45 gave rise to age groups, the second of which was as isolated from subsequent generations by its experience as it was form its predecessors. The first of these groups reached maturity just before or during the years of the war. Call-up took them into the forces on their eighteenth birthday. They served as soldiers, airmen, sailors or marines all over the globe. Those that survived, acquired on demobilization the chance of a free university education, provided they had or could quickly acquire the necessary qualifications. A whole age group of those who had left grammar school at eighteen for clerkships or the like for reasons of economic necessity now had the chance of a university education. Amongst them were many whose interests turned to contemporary history, and a few who became academic historians interested in the 1930s. In their approach they were to be as heavily influenced by the Popular Front version of ‘anti-appeasement’ as their predecessors; they were, however, to move in their views away form this approach as the experience of the 1950s developed. And they were also to be very much subject to the concentration upon British foreign policy as an extension of British developments through which their successors, as noted below.