The 5 million were the totality of the Armed Forces, the field army would be much smaller. On the number of French divisions on May 10 I have...
Yes, it's a famous episode, I think Churchill reported it in The History of the 2nd WW. He asked in French where is the strategic reserve and...
I suspect that if he had waited until the start of Fall Rot it could have gone worse for the Soviets than during Barbarossa. After slowly...
I know it's quite far-fetched. But Stalin was not always predictable. Let's imagine that he had started to have misgivings about his treaty with...
Happy Easter guys (and ladies, I assume there must be some here...) :)
You are my guest. Btw, if you are undecided you can find some of those books online for free and read some chapters so you can have a better idea...
Yes, I read it many years ago. It is a quite original crossover, but it follows the same style and it has the same weaknesses. It is 3rd person...
Have some of you guys read Turtledove's "Southern Victory" series (aka Timeline 191)? The last four books describe an alternate WW2 where the USA...
Thanks Bronk7. I looked for some info and found that WT is the most realistic of the two, so I might give it a try. It seems more difficult to...
Interesting. But how does it work? For instance, let's say you are in the middle of a game and you have to quit, what happens? Does your tank...
I have never played a MMO game. Some seem very interesting but how can you play such games on your own time? For instance you want to play one...
It should be treated as a memoir, not as a history work. I think if a military historian can filter out the stuff Cooper didn't have direct...
Rich, what's your take on Cooper's Death Traps? He has been heavily criticized as unreliable and his book contains several errors about technical...
I found some info on the Sherman with the Pershing turret. On some forums I read it was test driven for 2000 miles without breaking. I don't know...
I'm not aware of a Sherman chassis with Pershing turret. Maybe you are referring to the M-36 GMC? At the time some German crews were indeed very...
I re-watched the scene and actually the Tiger stops to fire. [MEDIA] When I watched the movie I got the impression that it was firing on the move.
But that was exactly what I thought at the beginning :D :) Well, I meant by academic standards. If I were a dude with the hobby of physics...
I only recently realized you are the author of the books under your signature :) It feels almost presumptuous to argue with you, but I fear we...
Yes, maybe the shape of the base-plate was responsible for that belief. The Japanese had also another light mortar, the Type 98 (50 mm), which had...
They were effective against the Brits in Malaysia, and even later on in Burma. Much less in the Pacific, but they suffered from major logistical...
