"Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945" by Max Hastings.
You're right. The shame is De Valera's.I understand that Ireland was in no position to send forces, but declaring would have been a powerful...
I received the book for Christmas as well. I think I'll read 'At Dawn We Slept" first before reading this book.
I'm reading "Munich, 1938" by David Faber. Boy, what a duplicitous jerk Chamberlain was!
The shame here should be of the Irish for standing idly by while a collection of some of the most fiendish, wicked, men to ever head a nation...
Churchill has his drawbacks to be sure, but let's be honest here. Churchill was not alone in pushing for Gallipoli. His decision certainly was not...
What a bunch of rubbish! First off, you lose major points for calling Churchill "a lunatic". Churchill was many things, but lacking full control...
I think it is safe to say that if we did not intervene in the ETO, the Russians would still have won, but the cost would have been much greater....
I have to be honest, I don't see much use for apologies--especially after 70 years. I doubt that it is of solace to those left who suffered...
I have read 4 biographies(Toland, Fest, and Kershaw) of the man as well as a psychological study and the one thing you cannot say about Adolf...
"Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish War of 1939-40" by William R. Trotter. Easy read, very much written for the public. Boy, the Fins were tough S.O.B's.
While what you say is factually correct, the truth is that all Germans who were not declared enemies of the state, were complicit in the Nazi...
"Hitler Strikes Poland: Blitzkrieg, Ideology, and Atrocity".
People trying to compare US's racial attitudes with those of Nazi Germany. Basically saying that they were the same. The US certainty had issues...
http://http://www.amazon.com/Racial-Ambivalence-Germanys-Military-Establishment/dp/1934703516/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1274069960&sr=1-1...
All I have to say to this and any other critic of the bombs is this: You weren't there and you would not have had to go in. MacArthur was a...
In reading about WWII, I have come to appreciate just how complex it is. For example, morality . Who in the war was pure from a moral...
The intimidation did not occurr until AFTER the Nazis took office. The numbers I am speaking of are before they took office.The Nazis had borad...
Show me where the American soldiers were trained to wage "ruthless war". That we committed "war crimes" is not in dispute. The US certainly was...
The Nazis were known at that for being violent, anti-Semitic, and expansionist. They did take steps to squelch the socialist tendencies in order...
