Army people in all nations are clean shaven when n uniform. Depending on the unit, it's actually an offence to appear with whiskas. I always...
I give you the words of the great and pioneering American piano satirist/math teacher, Tom Lehrer, a couple of lines from his song "Send The...
You have to wonder at the logic of officials who let people travel in exactly the same manner as pre-outbreak. No restrictions on the ingress and...
I notice the blurb about the author....John Sliz....lives in Toronto with his wife and three cats. Shouldn't the cats be "living with John and...
I thought the possibility of a general election in the middle of the Fall of France was highly unlikely. If Chamberlain's supporters were so...
Lw, would the Alies have had sufficient stimulus to build centimetric radar with no war effort to sustain the technological race? Would the cavity...
Seems they think it was one operated by the Regia Areonautica, out of Albania or Croatia. I think the Director of the Institute that preserves...
Perhaps you are right CAC. The level of hate from the Chinese would depend, however, on how much they have been told, and whether the japanese...
Elinor, a couple of things stand out.... Firstly, I have always heard it said, and have read too, that the Allied bombing "brought people...
CAC...I notice our news services are being very co-operative when it comes to reportage of the current protests in Hong Kong. I've just been...
What constitutes a hot topic? Why, pictures of nekked girls. Pictures of wobbly bits and pink bits will win out every time. A thread combining...
Are we not missing somethng fundamental? Name even one area of WW2 where a decisive battle was fought.... Don't mention Midway. The war went on...
Tamino stated that we were "dangerously close to the impact of the Siberians" And wouldn't you know it? The account I'm reading by Geoffrey...
You have to be kidding, kid.
I have a story to tell regarding 'posing'... My mother used to run a mini-bus service. She engaged the services of a man about 10 years her...
All the nice girls love a sailor....Eighteenth century Portsmouth/London was full of public houses, with patrons swapping stories of French...
Apparently the Bundesarchiv has a thick file of correspondance from one Heinz Guderian, motoring through conquered territory and looking for an...
The subject of mud, no all weather roads and it's effect on the course of Operation 'Typhoon' has been much written about. No other general has...
Wonder what division? The comentary mentions the name of the commander, inspecting on horseback. Must have been a pretty good division by Italian...
Would the effects of fuel rationing vary with exactly who you were? I don't recall a wartime British pilots memoir that fails to mention of a...