Thank you. A lot of it was based on my own experiences growing up with a family one generation out of WWII. My Grandfather flew, my Grandmother billetted hundreds on the horse farm they own, my father was born just before the war and had all of his early life informed by it.

At the same time they are very European in outlook and so, despite losing many Jewish friends that they had known in the 20s and earlier 30s (and helping a few to settle in the UK (we're WASPs, alas, but literary ones!)), they made sure that after the war they continued to travel and to talk with everyone and to continue to remember what it felt like to have that daily horror. Because unless individuals remember, and act on it, countries are doomed to repeat it.

My family taught me a lot of other things, but that was by far the most important.