"Seven Days To Noon" and "The Third Man" : atomic diplomacy vs penicillin diplomacy

"The Third Man" and "Seven Days To Noon" were filmed so long ago they are old enough to be old age pensioners,  but these two gripping films remain classics of postwar british cinema and fine time capsules into the mindset of western civilization post-1945.

Seven Days is an allegory about American 'go-it-alone' atomic diplomacy while the Third Man , Harry Lime , acts as a stand-in for Josef Mengele in a film allegory that sees the ultimate expression of evil being the murdering of innocent children by the doctors they trust - in this case , a corruption of penicillin diplomacy.

The totally unexpected wartime triumph of 'selfless penicillin'

I like to claim that my thesis found in "Weft Over Warp" takes a very different and controversial take on WWII.

(But of course, authors - and above all, historians - are expected to claim their work says something totally new and totally provocative.)

So here it goes : I think you will agree that our conventional view of WWII focuses on its act of evil - as if to say it was six years of unrelenting evil sandwiched between two longer periods of peace and good will.

My take is that before, during and after WWII , the modern world was so dominated by selfishness and self-centredness that it was the unnoticed norm and that what now really stands out about WWII, 75 years after the event,  were the rare -bright/shining/unexpected - examples of noble selflessness.