There has been a "sea-change of historical opinion" but you lot missed it.
I read History so I knew.
Paxman knew. See his views I put up before the programmes.

"claims that were abandoned half a century ago" is what you old farts have been propping up.

The Historians of today have rubbished those myths.
None of you have been able to find a single one who still believes them.

The BBC/OU documentaries.
The final summing up.

57 minutes in. Paxman to camera, "
Later generations would contend it had been a futile war. The war was terrible certainly, but hardly futile.
It stopped the German conquest of much of Europe, and perhaps even of villages like this.

Never before in the nation's History had a war required the commitment and the sacrifice of the whole population, and by and large, for 4 years, the British people kept faith with it."