After the battering the Red army received the Moscow counter-attack is rather impressive wouldn't you say? If the Red army was as badly affected...
You are as welcome to your opinion as I am of mine; I was offended by an attack and reflected it. I am hoping to sort it out privately so refer...
If the winter was exceptionally cold, wouldn't that affect the Red army as well?
What you give is what you get. Snidey and unjustified? See for yourself. Post modern? I'm far too vain to stoop to such pseudishness. I do my...
The open and semi-open warfare of 1914 and 1918 were much more lethal than the years of trench warfare. Infantry casualties in Normandy were so...
Come off it Poopstah! That's name calling.
I don't have an 'argument', I expressed some satisfaction that my feelings about Tedder aren't unique. From what I've read the heavy bombers...
If they were of any benefit they ought to have been used, particulary as original judgements about the depth of German defences and the accuracy...
Come off it Poopstah! Contemporary records were there for the taking from 1974. Hastings can write in sentences unlike many of our contemporaries...
Didn't he call his memoirs 'With Prejudice'????
If Hastings and d'Este did, why have their findings been so seriously questioned over the last decade? 'Flavour'? Perhaps but I wouldn't give them...
Appreciations, signal logs, tramping the ground? Surely less prone to being used to derive 'lessons'? Don't you agree that dissembling is a...
Surely you can agree that operational documents from the time are less vulnerable to the vagaries of memory and prejudice, hindsight and ambition?
You're welcome to your opinion although I'd suggest that d'Este and Hastings have been superseded by writers who have gone to primary sources...
I think that the air contribution to ground operations is undergoing a searching re-evaluation which is tending to reduce its importance. recent...
"The Right of the Line" and the Role of the RAF in WW2 An appreciation by Dr. John Peaty in BRITISH COMMISSION FOR MILITARY HISTORY hmmm, so I'm...
"No accurate figures" says it all; did red Army forces expel Russians from their homes because they wouldn't live in the same building as a Slav?
erm, how did German soldiers in summer uniforms survive the Russian winter? Looting clothes of civilians perhaps? Expelling them from their homes...
"...if [Soviet prisoners] didn't jump to it, they could simply be shot" GOC West Ia, No. 235/42, 14 Oct 1942, situation assessment, BA-MH RH...
and lied about his complicity in atrocities committed in France.
