But God dammit, we are talking about the most famous single person to person engagement in the entirety of WW2!!!! It's the one story to come out...
Does this thing look like it's going to end soon? Now that the media have lost interest after the first month, exactly what will happen if the...
Whatever the case, the Sixth Army was losing 20000 men a week at the height of the fighting, referring to the contest as "Rattenkrieg", or "Verdun...
Boring is certainly a skeptic But why wouldn't a skilled hunter let the battle pass over him to obtain a fine position behind lines? Contrary to...
Craig stated that the German sniper involved was called either Konig or Thorwald and was an instructor from a school called Zossen, brought to...
I remember reading Beevor. I don't remember him questioning the Zaitsev duel, but I don't have any of my books anymore' and am only working by...
It might have depended on the individual in regard to wearing medals into combat. As to the legitimacy of Zaitsev's famous duel, Craig's book is...
Yes Kai. It is standard practice in the Australian army to try for a serious wound rather than an outright kill. This not only pulls up to four...
I understand the best shots in the German army were Tyroleans, from the Tyrol region
Sorry. Off topic.
I mean, there are stories contained within Sven's books that really do seem to be based on what he experienced. For instance, in "Blitzfreeze",...
Excuse me for using Sven Hassel as a source. I believe Sven was a real veteran, but that a lot of his stories were fictional, but mixed in with...
Something else I might mention.... When I used to read Sven Hassel, he used to convey a whole lot of sheer terror with a single word... SIBERIAN...
I read somewhere long ago that in the Red Army of WW2, "sniperism" became something of a cult practice, particularly at Stalingrad in the close...
And those of you that believe that a second bomb was not necessary, please consider that the United States military was demonstrating the fact...
Remember too, that the planners for Operation Olympic/Coronet were themselves unaware of the results of the Manhattan Project. The planning,...
I think the speech made to the Japanese people by Emperor Hirohito in August of 1945 spells out exactly WHY the government of Japan was...
Physics? So now the laws of physics are different as well? We have a bullet doing right and left hand turns, now we have a president that follows...
So if there was no other shooter, why does Kennedy's head go "back and to the left" ? That was the whole point of viewing the Zapruder film. It...
Russo was in Garrisons book. You've just proven to me that you've never read it
