there is a very good quote there from a soe officer in albania called peter kemp. he wrote about how after he and his mates had a wonderful morning staging an attack on a german convoy down the road. they tried to get shelter from a nearby village and their interpreter said in the end after they, he begged and pleaded with the local villages they slammed door in his face and told him to go away. peter kemp realized we were young men. british. had no stake. all was a great great romp. for these people they knew what we had done the german or tailian punishment, punitive columns would be along within days or probably hours and they were going to burn the village and burn, it was quite likely they would kill the adults. they might well kill the children. they would destroy their crops. they could do, so those local people, they had a stake in what was happening. in the adventures of these soe people peter kemp wrote, we british have this rather selfish idea that other nations that refuse to help with our as wars just don't understand properly and they don't. if you're