I was not aware of the option that Richard Anderson notes. Here is an example of the maps in the Green Books: [ATTACH]
Do you have a copy of, or access to, the Green Book on the subject? Hugh Cole's "The Ardennes, Battle of the Bulge"? All the Green Books have...
Charles B. MacDonald, "A Time For Trumpets, The Untold Story Of The Battle Of The Bulge", pages 612-613: Yet how much of that had Montgomery...
If one reads Horrocks own autobio, one finds a map, that clearly shows three separate roads converging on Nijmegen, yet his orders were to use the...
Michael Reynolds in "Devil's Adjutant" had a great anecdote about Tiger 213. It seems an American tank recovery team was getting ready to winch it...
It was British Fireflies that finally got Michael Wittman.
There was no operational plan the Germans could have executed that would have overcome the overwhelming Anglo-America air superiority over...
Carronade and Ricky have already mentioned the Alps. If sufficient forces were left in Italy, having eventually cleared the north of Italy, the...
Thank you for taking any joy from a good discussion.
We are obviously compounding the "what ifs" [and annoying the "hindsight" people] but I suggest that even had Britain and France not declared war...
Indeed in "The Gathering Storm", Churchill directly quotes PM Baldwin stating essentially your first sentence above. Churchill then proceeds to...
Lately, some people insist that Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement entirely because he wanted to buy time for Britain to rearm, not...
Agreed. By "twice" I meant Belgium had to be overrun twice by Germany to think it through.
Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway were all neutrals in 1939. Belgium, Holland, Denmark and Norway were all founding members of NATO in 1949....
Rereading Churchill's "The Gathering Storm". Somehow, it is only this second reading that registers for me that what drove Mussolini into the arms...
Frost was promised relief, in Arnhem, not Nijmegen, in 48 hours. XXX Corps did not even near Nijmegen until the third day.
Religious history was very important. Enlisted men had to prove no Jews back to 1750. Officers had to prove no Jews back to 1700. Baptismal...
Agree with your elevation zero. By left I presume you mean counter-clockwise. Same could not be done for windage, but the M-1 Garand receiver had...
That was true for G43s or K43s [I have one with Walther mount and Voigtlander scope]. But I do not believe that was true for K98ks, which were the...
Well that was my fundamental point in my original post. By the time XXX Corps reached Nijmegen, the Germans had already decimated British Airborne...
