Great Britain

PART 25 - RECKONING
The end of the war in Central Europe is a time without pity. It is also untidy and messy. The intervention of outsiders from Russia and America means that no European nation can win.

PART 26 - REMEMBER
In the Second World War twenty million Russians died - in action, in captivity, fighting men and women, and ordinary civilians; Britain and the Commonwealth lost four hundred and eighty thousand - sixty thousand of them civilians killed in bombing raids. Germany, in the war she started, lost nearly five million men and women; two and a half million Japanese were killed. America - not invaded or bombed - lost nearly three hundred thousand men.
Those who lost people close to them can remember, vividly, the moment they heard the news. And many still remember, each year, at reunions, at the Cenotaph, and at gravesides.