However, ex-German Luftwaffe crew members who were taken prisoner and who remained in this the UK after the war, claimed that target maps had been prepared for the City and had been issued to air crews. The booklet goes on to show the sites used by the USA's famous 82nd Airborne in the run up to D-Day. Drawn from family albums, local collections and professional photographers, they show the way things were and how they have changed. Every photograph is captioned, providing names and dates where possible, revealing historical and anecdotal detail and giving life to the scenes and personalities captured through the camera lens. Two girls from the Narborough area are dead.
Years pass and the police remain baffled.
In an unexpected Orwellian move, the police are prepared to DNA type every male in the area between the ages of 12 and 79 in an effort to find the elusive killer. Certain such evidence would be declared inadmissible, the investigators are also confident a match would enable them to extract a confession. When an investigator refuses to submit his own sample, his peers grow suspicious. The sophomoric cat and mouse that follows points in only one direction. Exasperated with the emphasis most war literature places on the officers and political leaders, Moore set out to trace the wartime experiences of one man - one personal history among the 6,000,000 voiceless ranks of Britons in uniform.