Eight decades after VE Day, we are once more on the front line of a European war

FEW people alive today can remember or imagine living as the brave citizens of Ukraine do every day under the shadow of sudden death. I’m told my first word as a toddler in 1944 was “doodlebug”, the cry on everyone’s lips as air-raid sirens hailed yet another Nazi V-1 attack on shattered London. Until recently,...