No need to thank anyone here, we are all too young to have served in that war. Letting Stalin come that far west was fucked up, an Atomic bomb shoved up his Marxist ass would have been better. As far as Britain's part in the war goes, do you believe it would speak better of them to have surrendered than to have fought as well as they did? Remember what put the fire in the belly of the most effective nation of conquerors ever. It was the victory at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 which set the stage for the unification of Britain and consolidation of power that made them capable of creating the Empire the Sun never set on.