“It’s very possible to live your life and not meet people who’ve been to the war, and so it makes it hard to talk to people about it politically because no one really has a vested interest in it. When you watch old World War Two movies, the whole country was in on the war effort, and now you can…not know the war was going on unless you looked in the back pages of the paper,” says Nancy French, author of Home and Away: A Story of Family in a Time of War.