PETER HITCHENS: Steve McQueen's blockbuster Blitz is propaganda dressed up as historical fact - with racism on every street corner and the Communist Party portrayed as heroes It is hard to beat a good nostalgic war film at this time of year.
'After an hour of Blitz, I felt thoroughly propagandised'] Blitz is set in London, 1940, and stars Saoirse Ronan as a single mother whose mixed-race son George, a reluctant evacuee, leaps from a train to travel back home to be with his mum.
I confess that, though I know the London Blitz was a horror, I have inherited some of my romantic view of it from my late mother, born in 1921, who always gave the impression of having rather enjoyed herself at the time, while serving in the glamorous ranks of the Women’s Royal Naval Service (the Wrens).
'But bombs turn out to be a comparatively minor danger as he is menaced by racism and imperialism'] The past and the dead are always very present at Christmas, when normal time falls into step with eternity and our memories of long ago are especially intense.
So I suspect quite a few people may turn to a new film, Blitz, about the German bombing of London in 1940.
