“A boy born into a modest background in 1935 stood a better chance of becoming a Cabinet Minister than a second lieutenant in the Grenadier Guards” Richard Vinen, A Generation in Uniform 1945-1963 (2015) “In some ways it was like the debate of a group of barbarians as to how to extract a screw from a piece of wood. Accustomed only to nails, they had made one effort to pull out the screw by main force, and now that it had failed they were devising methods of applying more force still, of obtaining more efficient pincers, of using levers and fulcrums so that more men could bring their strength t…
