I also felt that "Grandad's War" went on a bit too much - after all, he actually already had a lot of the material to hand already, in those letters, more than most of us would have, and the regimental war diaries would have filled in the movements of the men.
I do hope that the rest of the series will not be all replaying the Second World War - many, like my own father, totally refused to speak about it - the only thing I ever recall him saying was (ironically) that he supposed it'd given him a chance to see a lot more of the world than he might otherwise have had ... and I've an album of fading photos of Egypt to prove he did. But he never wanted to speak about it, and the medals remained in a box, deep in a drawer.
Many who served in that War would not have liked to have their war gone over again - and there is no disrespect intended to all those who had to play their part in that War. They had their young lives changed in a way that thank goodness most of us will never need to experience, but it cast a long shadow over their lives.
I've watched some of the USA ones, and -apart from adverts - there does seem to be a good range and interest in them. I don't think that the series has had its day - but it needs to avoid presenting too formulaic an approach. In a previous series we had the same Irish famine images shown in a few programmes, which may point to lazy research, - or of course, a paucity of relevant images.
I shall look forward to the rest of the series - after all, they rarely start off with the best one, do they?
