The thing that always strikes me, as an American, watching things about Britain in the war is that soldiers would be fighting on the front lines and then be home on the weekend. It's bizarre to me. We haven't had a war on our own soil in 150 years. Both my grandfathers fought in WWII, but for them it meant they were Over There for three years.

So seeing active duty soldiers mixing with banal domesticity of the homefront, and seeing how inescapably the war touched everything, it's really interesting. And they also do a very good job at showing that not everyone was united in the war effort, despite how nostalgic takes on WWII often portray it. In hindsight it seems inevitable that Britain went to war with Germany, but I like how this shows that there were a lot of people who didn't agree with the decision to go to war. I also like the complexity of how the WWI vets deal with it. Some, like Foyle, tell their sons that it's something you just get through. And some know how hollow jingoism is and want to save their children from what they went through.

(As I side note, one of my great grandfathers, a WWI vet, did save his son from the frontlines--something my grandfather hated him for.)