By Andy Silvester It has become something of a cottage industry in academia, and polite society, to denigrate the achievements of the past. And national myth-making deserves scrutiny, for it forces us to confront the bad old days of the past, too, in order to create a better future. One war, however, has mostly avoided the too-clever-by-half revisionism of so many of the ivory tower brigade. For as national stories go, the nation that stood up to fascism on the continent – on its own, holding out, before fighting back with democratic allies – isn’t a bad one to have. Today’s commemorations are…