Good examples of this approach in the UK are the Jorvik Centre in York; the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford; and theImperialWarMuseum in London.
He is a specialist in oral history at London's ImperialWarMuseum, and this book, like others he has written or co-written, gains richness and texture from the use of first-hand testimony.
And a spokesman for theImperialwarMuseum, which organized and dubbed the reunion a "wartime romance," cautions people should not read too much into the fact Batstone never married.