Thanks, very enlightening. It explains a lot.
In August 1944 the US Army in France conducted a series of tests at Isigny to determine the effectiveness of various anti-tank rounds. The types...
It's very easy to be wise after the event. There are many myths and half-truths about DBP, but Norman Windrow's massive The Last Valley, the best...
Bill Mauldin didn't think too highly of tech ranks, or the delusions of grandeur those ranks conferred on some soldiers who held them.[ATTACH]
There was nothing amusing about me when I was 18--except, of course, my hair and clothes. The hair's nearly all gone now. As for the clothes, they...
Dear Gary: Just to second what was said earlier about the Chindit Chasing website, it is excellent and the owner of the site has contact info on...
You can recover from being out of work. You can't recover from being dead.
Bad leadership and unpreparedness are simply inexcusable, whether they come from the right or the left or anywhere else. Some may claim that...
The Monitor gets a lot of attention these days, probably because a) it's a rare collector's piece, b) it looks boss, and c) some may regard it as...
Glad the surgery went OK, get well soon.
I just saw it and will post a full review tomorrow. Very briefly: 1. On the plus side, the picture does make a more than usually serious effort...
Joseph Djugashvilli, noted Soviet scientist, literary and art critic, and penal reformer, passed away peacefully today, surrounded by family and...
Some people don't want to believe the report about his death, apparently because such reports have appeared before. Is that the case?
I wouldn't be too lofty about the mass market paperback crowd. Lots of excellent, reliable books were published in that format in the 50s, 60s,...
Which is better? Well (like many things) it depends. In general and in my experience, pre-80 books are better written. They were not all vividly...
Also he couldn't simply shift the weight of his armed forces to Africa or the West. His armed forces were not well adapted for those theaters, and...
He could not stay on the defensive. The index of Russian war production, low in the first six months of war, was rising rapidly in 1942, faster...
And while the rest of us wait for the evidence and are cautious in our speculations I see that a Connecticut politician has not waited but leapt...
Yes, the young ones were often the worst. Nazism was a young person's movement to a large degree; Hitler was 43 when he took power, young by the...
If you can make a bizarre comedy about Joseph Stalin I don't see why you can't make one about Hitler.
