Some excellent replies. Frankly I did not have much interest in WW2 until about three years ago. Then I read a book which had a battle in which...
Is it me or have we lost all our German and Russian friends?
Yes - the exploitation of China is one of the most disgraceful episodes in British History. But if I may correct you on the subject of Japan -...
Maybe completed the defeat of Japan would have been a better phrase. No emotion - the Japanese mind-set has not changed. MacArthur said it - well...
I agree too - there is a point of atonement and Germany achieved that a long time ago - lets move on. I was in a bar in Stockholm a few years ago...
Everything you are setting out here is in HINDSIGHT. I don't know if the US has the equivalent of the War Cabinet Papers\Conclusions but I have...
Could you expand on this please - I don't understand what you are referring to
Not as much as I would like - and Manchuria was taken when? and Korea was taken when? I don't deny that the War was an American one and a very...
So why the need to go easy on Japan with a lower Soviet threat (and resultant unsuccessful re-education) when was the re-education of Germany was...
Now I am confused USMC. Do the facts of Chinese massacres of Chinese excuse the Japanese Massacres or do you mean that the US has (or rather had...
This reverence bit is overdone. In the time of Hirohitos's father, Taisho, there was considerable progress made by the newly enriched Capitalist...
Well, Eisenhower could have left the senior Nazi Officials in charge, retained Albert Sheer as the Economics Minister and I am sure that the...
Yes - here we have a Class A War Criminal, America's favourite ally in the Pacific: "Nobusuki Kishi, a former economic czar of Manchuria, and...
They called themselves the Forgotten Army and you clearly have not studied the War in Burma. The Anglo\Indian Army (plus Vinegar Joe with his...
This topic has arisen out of a comment I made on the subject of the use by America of the Nuclear Bomb\s to obtain Japan's unconditional...
Book arrived - could not put it down - brilliantly hilarious. Have never laughed so much in years - what a guy! I liked the bit about smuggling...
Yes I am bit busy over next few days but I think your suggestion of starting a new thread is a good one.
No I think it might be useful (if we have not done it before) to compare the Allies treatment of Nazism in Germany with the American treatment of...
This is the standard excuse. Everything you wrote above could be used in the context of Germany - only the Soviets were even closer and more...
Maybe you looking in the wrong place Tired Old Soldier Of course the British were playing hardball and even Halifax, who what ever one thinks of...
