As I said I only read the introduction, and browsed quickly the rest of the book at the library. It was many years ago, but I remember distinctly...
But that is what Hastings says in Armageddon. Not just that German soldiers, for whatever reason, were better, but that the soldiers of...
I don't recall that exact phrase. In Overlord Hastings quotes Rommel stating that if he had commanded the Allied armies in Normandy he would have...
If I could send a double like to your post I would... :cool: To give the devil his due Hastings is a good writer (stylistically and...
I have some problems with Max Hastings. To be honest I have some problems with journalists-turned-historians. Not that they cannot write good...
Thank you guys! Christopher point of view about tank losses and damage is very interesting. I have read Fowler's book, it has nice photos but I...
Kippis! :whisky.glass: Of course I also download articles and read stuff from the web, like Mystics and Statistics. There are several interesting...
I think that post-1980 works have the advantage to use new sources, which were overlooked or unavailable in earlier times, especially Soviet...
Do you have suggestions on books/sources about Kursk? I'm reading The Battle of Kursk.The German View, Glantz's The Battle for Kursk.The Soviet...
I'm reading some books on this battle, among which SH Newton's Kursk. The German View. It seems to me that, all considering, the Germans did as...
I think there would have been some chance if it had arrived earlier. As you can see from this map, and from other maps of the SHO-1 plan, he...
Hi! Sorry I posted this in the wrong section, I thought it was a discussion about operational choices for the battle of Leyte rather than...
SHO-1 prescribed a pincer attack on Leyte Gulf with Nishimura attacking through the Surigao Strait and the main force under Kurita through the St....
I found this link about a proposed Italian "Large Battlecruiser." Cassone’s large battlecruiser proposal, 1921 It's not a WW2 project, but I...
I mean you "buy" them at your shipyards using the credit points you get by sinking enemy ships. Yes, I'm talking about the turn based game, the PC...
On the Warship Project site I found two interesting Never-Were projects. The first is one of the preliminary designs that led to the Alaska...
It seems Germans should remember the KISS rule (Keep It Simple, Stupid). ;)
I found an article very critical about the B-29 and particularly its remote firing defensive system, which is called a "dead end" (it seems a...
I'm not much into sub simulations myself. However there is a surface mod for Atlantic Fleet that is very good IMO. The best part is the Battle of...
Right, now I found it. Before I just googled "The Destruction of Dresden" without the "Apocalypse" part. I was already thinking it was some EU...
