The historian Fergul Keane wrote an interesting historical perspective today on The BBC News website about recruiting sergeants on a commission and peer pressure, the plight of teenage soldiers.

Strangely, he doesn't seem to concur with what Keith calls "every living historian." How strange??? 😆😆

You know, it must be awful to claim to have been fascinated by war all your life and find out it isn't the glorious patriotic goodness after all... All those toy soldiers set out on your dining room table eh Keith? You tell them they are fine upstanding men and hope they never find out they were made out of plastic in Hong Kong.