Last year I visited Madingley Cemetery, a graveyard in Cambridge of 3,800 American airmen with a wall commemorating an additional 5,100 American pilots and coastguardmen who disappeared or died protecting Britain’s shores. At Duxford airbase there is a plaque commemorating the lives of 30,000 American pilots who died during the Second World War. What I noticed at Madingley was the large number of Stars of David in the cemetery. These Jewish pilots came from every corner of America. They died defending a country that now spends an inordinate amount of time writing about ‘Lord Cashpoint’ Levy and about the ‘Undertaker’ Avram Grant, notwithstanding the world knowing that his father had buried his sister and mother with his bare hands at Auschwitz.