Since the beginning of 2020, eight members of the Baseball Hall of Fame have died: Whitey Ford, Al Kaline, Lou Brock, Joe Morgan, Bob Gibson, Hank...
This last year has been a dreadful one for England's 1966 World Cup champions. Nobby Stiles, Jack Charlton, and reserve Norman Hunter have all...
It seems to be down again today, I've been trying to connect since this morning and no go. Does anyone have any information?
Thanks for the update, Otto.
I know this is an old thread, but the problem may be occurring again. I have been attempting to connect to ww2talk all morning and it times out...
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...
