[Margaret Pilkington]

Propaganda.....the news service was not what it is now and many items related to the conflicts were not published as they were thought to be detrimental to the war effort or security.
As for the World wide web, there is much on the web that is skewed, biased or just plain rubbish.

I think you are wrong about the men of that era preferring jail to going out to fight.
There was an innate sense of pride for the country and a sense that such injustices as were forced on the world by the dictators could not be allowed to pass.
The men who fought did so for the freedoms which we enjoy.

War is never glorious, and there are no real victors...only survivors.
I am old enough to have been able to hear some of the stories told by the men who came back from the second world war.......my grandfather could not bear to talk about his experience in WW1.
No amount of 'educational videos' are going to persuade me of anything different........my judgement goes on my experience of those who were there and came back.....my family members. They were conscripted, but they did what they did because at the time it was the right thing to do.......they could not even know how the world would eventually turn out.
That is not to say their sacrifices were in vain, or that they should not e accorded the honours they earned.
I am glad that you are going to bow out of the thread.......you have added very little of any real use to it(and I say that with respect).