STEFAN! I'm appalled you could reply to this thread without saying the Glorious Glosters and the Battle of the Imjin River, Korea 1951.
I thought the series was pretty well done all in all, and some the sequences were very good, I found the depiction of the murder of the...
I think that's a bit overstated, and the IJN took much of their inspiration for Pearl Harbour from the Royal Navy's earlier attack on Taranto.
Just before we get started, what level are you teaching at, and what age are your students?
Currently reading John Terraine's The Smoke and the Fire, a fascinating read.
Incidentally, where do you teach?
[/b] Haven't finished it just yet, but it's proving a readable book so far, and seems to be pretty even handed. One book on Haig that I've been...
So Martin, what did you make of that? Have to say I enjoyed the programme, seemed to have much more of a point to it than C4's Dambusters show....
Reading a few things at the moment, First World War themed mostly, swapping between them as and when I feel like. Probably not the most effective...
[/b] So what? Knowing what a city looks like, even knowing what each individual building is beforehand, does not equate to being able see,...
Ah, I see Gordon has beaten me to it.
This notion that the RAF deliberately destroyed hospitals is laughable. No single buidling is clearly marked to a bomber flying at 20,000ft in...
Incidentally, what did you think of that Dambusters series?
'Dark Blue World' is really excellent. Thinking of Tom Cruise's imminent film about Americans in the Battle of Britain, rather than pay to see...
I seem to remember reading about similar problems with the P-51's large air intake.
I do not claim the reparations were adequate, nor do I suggest that the internment was constitutional. However, the very fact that the internees...
This is true - as German troops overran the British 5th Army's supply depots they would often stop and simply gorge themselves on captured food,...
Thank you Martin! I'd come across those books a few months ago in Waterstone's, but hadn't the money to buy them, and neglected to get the titles...
First off, I agree with the points raised by Gordon immediately after the following post. If that were to happen to me, I would no doubt be deeply...
Hitler and Stalin were not allies, even before June 1941.
