We can only guess that the few extra weeks of good weather WOULD have been enough for the Germans to take Moscow. And then what? Total Russian...
Why would Hitler just stop?.....well you are partly right in that it was an aspect of honour. In May of 1940 Hitler remarked to Generals...
I'll throw in some of my rambling thoughts on this.... What if...Lord Gort had not begun evacuation preparations when he did? He had the forsight...
When the Germans concentrated on the airfields, it was more than just the number of aircraft destroyed on the ground. It was also all the repair...
In my humble opinion it was, as always the case, a complex combination of things that occured in which the British did things mostly right and the...
I believe German Naval strategy is a moot point unless they also had air superiority. The carrier strategy discussed earlier could have worked...
I have read 3 Antony Beevor books, Stalingrad The Fall of Berlin 1945 and Crete All 3 of them are very well written and I highly recommend them.
France & Britan COULD have fended off the German attack in 1940 had the Germans stuck to their original invasion plan. The original plan called...
There are volumes written about the German war economy and I was stating that there was more to it than simply "make more". There are many...
Shift to wartime production earlier and manpower has already been covered but the production issue goes beyond just "make more". German designs...
I think that between tililal and T.A. Gardner, they've hit the bullseye. Bombs can certainly do a tremendous amount of damage from the resultant...
