Good arguments have been made by USMCPrice & others for a German Mediterranean strategy instead of trying for an unlikely invasion of Britain with...
If the Japanese were trying to avoid going head to head with the US I think they'd probably give any British ships using American bases a wide...
I've seen those polls & they make interesting reading, such as Germany was certainly the main threat. Interviewing Date 12/12-17/41 Survey...
The opinion polls I've seen did have American public supporting a 'tougher stance' with both the Japanese and European Axis powers 'at the risk of...
Yep, 'World At War' is still the standard bearer. And 'Thunderbolts - The Conquest of the Reich' is a first class colour doco. Features P-47...
Although the Kriegsmarine was nearly always third cab of the rank after the army & Luftwaffe, actual spending on the Naval program between 1933 &...
A few operation Typhoon pics. http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/6106/panzersinrussia2xm5.jpg...
Beever's book 'Berlin: The Downfall 1945' brings up the rapes & killings by the Red Army as it over ran Eastern Germany, to the point that...
Didn't you post earlier that this guy Magenheimer said the weather was tolerable, now are you saying he says the mud saved Moscow, which is it?...
It certainly wasn't overestimated by Stavka, Zhukov & Koniev. The situation was so critical they said another determined German attack couldn't be...
No LJAd, ANZAC is not making the classic mistake of being fixated on the Soviet losses, anymore then you being fixated on German losses, I'm...
Whether you think they're useless or not, they're sources from researched Historians & authors, something I've seen precious little of from...
Hi USMCPrice! Clarke thinks lend lease really kicked in about '43, when the worst for the Red Army was over, & Glantz goes further saying that...
Does seem strange that Hitler would declare war on the US, but perhaps there was some reasoning behind his madness. As early as April Hitler...
Hi MB! It was the first book on the Eastern front I'd read & I became fascinated with the enormity of the operations which dwarfed everything...
Very cunning of Hitler to face his commanders one at a time so they coudn't back each other & present a united front against him. Not sure...
Could be there was no attack on Moscow on 1 September because Guderian at that time was traveling at full speed hundreds of kilometers in the...
That probably nails it in that it may have been vital in holding things together after the Red Armies huge defeats at Vyazma/Briansk. At that...
Not sure you could say that the weather was a myth & you could argue that it played a critical part in finally putting an end to any chance the...
A few sources, the best is over 100 pages of sources & notes from Alperovitz the Decision, plus reams from the net....... Minutes of Meeting...
