just interested.obviously a huge percentage of the waffen ss were foreign volunteers by the end of the war. just wondering how many were forced...
im writing a novel, based on the war, from the soviet point of view (the german point of view is overdone) i need a battle on which to revolve...
sorry i have to disagree the end result worked well for them? they lost 8 million soldiers! their country was in ruin! human waves are the result...
true the street fighting was executed well - but their tactics can't have been that sophisticated - or do you think there's another reason for...
bit stupid seem as i recently visted arnhem and the drops zones, but im trying to find a decent source for how many allied soldiers died as a...
brilliant cheers, just what i was looking for!
i think i read this story in one of anthony beevors: when the 16th panzer division was advancing to the north of stalingrad they came up against...
im writing a novel and (obviously) its set in the later stages of the battle of Stalingrad after the encirclment. basically some red army soldiers...
yes i did mean paul carrel, sorry. 2.4 million up to December 1944 seems fair enough. Any ideas on how many died in addition to this, during the...
nice one cheers. very helpful
okay, here's the story as I (and many other people) had always learnt: Stalin is informed by spies, most notably Sorge, that the Japanese plan...
another area where i'm finding varying figures. most seem to agree that about 80% of german losses were in the eastern theatre. A book by Paul...
i'd heard rumours gas was used to flush out defenders during the seige of sebastapol, but don't hold me to that.
yeah i was amazed it hadn't been nicked, thought it would be first choice for any eastern front nut
okay, just wondering wat you guys think about the death toll at Stalingrad. some sources seem to say as low as 750, 000, but some even go as high...
so yeah, just joined. im still doing my AS levels but have always had a passion for modern military history, particularly the eastern theatre of...
