The causes of Great War can be downgraded to three basic factors I think. 1) Creation of Two Rival Power Blocs who at some point refused to see...
I got this book a few days ago. It was thinner than I expected and finished it last night. It is written by Lieut. Martin Poppel who started the...
I am wondering if there is any review , remark , comment or critisim of Allied commanders or about their operations in European or Mediterranean...
I would like to return to original topic there. I have a question how revelant or important was US aid to Britain ? US could only sell necessary...
One should simply needes to read Peter Padfield's "Donitz" about the man. Not only he knew regime's excesses and Holocaust itself he actually...
I would like to mention about self serving attitude of German generals at the end of war and how their biased or sometimes ignorant or twisted...
welcome paul
Asia was not calm in 1950. Actual military engagements of Cold War happened here mostly. Russians got Manchuria , went halfway to Korean Peninsula...
Please I did not want to offend to anyone especially veterans and if I did I am very sorry. I know British/Commonwealth soldier was dogged and...
well we have to consider that Cold War already started at this point as US forerunner in this war already needed all the allies , potential...
I am talking about post war conditions and need for imperial / conservative authority and culture of Japan. If Allies went all the way in like...
In 1945 there were three realistic options to end the war with Japan I think. 1) Nuclear Threat. (+Soviet Union entering war against Japan)...
At the beginning of German assault Bastogne supposed to fall in first day according to German timetable. 1940 Army Group B scouts captured it on...
Kindertransport is I think itself one of most humanetarian acts ever conceived in history. In 1930'ies immigration in Europe was not a big problem...
Actually Mussolini's Salo Republic was quite unpopular after 1943 winter. It was a joke , it was recognized by no one but other Axis sattalite...
well Germans actually acted in a benign conquerers , disciplined and "korreckt" way especially in occupied Western Europe BUT right after they...
Well I am not sure. Chamberlain might have taken the correct course in Munich at the expanse of Czechs. (and that "Peace in Our Time" decleration)...
What I do not get is Germans overreaction and severe reprisals against civilian population due to partisan war. What did they think happen once...
In Italy after September 1943 Italians former allies Germans became occupiers and invaders trying to prop up a regime Italians did not want...
If you turn a civilian population against you , if you became invader / occupier in political sense guerilla and partisan warfare is unavoidable I...
