Sounds reasonable to me - besides I always thought Roosevelt was the clever one and Churchill the d*head
21 May through to 28th May, the French offered to give Mussolini Tunisia and Djibouti and an understanding on Algeria as their down payment to...
Freedom of speech - Can we have an answer please and then preferably a vote.
Incorrect. He does -see pages P575 etc and Chapter 18. Prioux's much deplete force was a useful addition and did cover perform well in protectign...
My father's unit, machine gunners, were trained as glider troops in preparation for D Day. However they spent the last weeks prior to D Day...
Absolutely true - and it was the Cinderella of the Services. Funding was very limited but starting in 1935 (and Chamberlain should take the...
Rather impossible to do since 1st Armoured had already been committed to battle from the morning of that day. You are ignoring the fact that...
Excellent Post Merdiolu. Freedom and Democracy are not necessarily the same thing and we are a long way from Nirvana in the West. In 1914 an...
Maybe its in his own interest - CW falling into the hands of Chechens would not be pleasant. And embarrassing the USA at the same time - two...
Tired Soldier Thanks for this information and clearly Manstein was a lot nearer the action than I had thought. However, returning to my main...
.By Tired old Solder Suddenly lots of posts - thread seems to have come alive. Firstly the failed meeting at Ypres. Many books deal with this to...
And Louis XIV - much more dangerous. I was not just Adolph who misunderstood the British Public - it was true of the whole German Foreign Office....
http://www.hrw.org/news/2013/09/17/dispatches-mapping-sarin-flight-path Not quite conclusive but highly suggestive.
Nice point. Should be "had not" and "were not bound by the treaty". But from now on, having signed the Treaty, the Syrian Regime will beheld to...
Interesting, LJAd. What else would you call it? The UN Secretary General calls it a War Crime. Somebody is guilty if a crime is committed,...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-24130181 Is this good enough evidence of Assad's guilt?
This refers to the Battle of Arras. Forget the language problem, there was a much greater problem with the French command. Here is a brief...
Just found Manstein - 9th Army, OKH reserve and not used until Fall Rot. I can understand now why there is no mention of him (or at least my...
I agree that he could influence events at a higher level than implied by the organogram. However, this was done via Ironside and London and fast...
Sorry yes - Gamelin Well we will just have to disagree about this. I think it was accidental. Communications as ever were terrible and he did...
