I know that some of my friend's here enjoy listening to classical music, and also are very interested in WWII. In many ways this piece which I adore, encapsulates both those criteria, and for me conjurs up images of young men in their Spitfires over the south coast of England in 1940, when a German invasion seemed imminent. They were the 'thin blue line' and many were never to return to God's earth in one piece. This music paints pictures in my mind of planes being thrown about the sky like a hornet's nest being prodded, of smoke contrails winding their way across the blue canvas, of young lives spiralling into the English Channel or the chalky earth of Kent. It creates the darkness and doom of invasion from the French coast and the desperation and pumping hearts of those young boys putting their lives 'on the line' not just for Britain but for the future of Western civilization...
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