Maybe you don’t have the reich sense of humour for history-based mirth. Nothing to lose your Messerschmitt over.

That’s the sound of the Royal Air Force preparing for Round 3. And Dresden property prices plummeting.

• Netherlands - Holmes’ Bonfire, 1666, 1944
• Belgium - Napoleonic wars — Waterloo
• France - (as England) 1230, 1337-60, 1369-89, 1373, 1415-53, 1562, (as Britain) 1794, 1795, 1813, 1815, 1944
• Germany - 1914-18, 1944-5
• Spain - 1808-13
• Italy - 1944-45
• Austria - 1945

Please calm down and would the outstanding 22 form an orderly queue.