I know we are going off the subject somewhat but there does seem to be a lot of "smoke" concerning the Swedes and peace\surrender of the British...
Can you give us some more information on this very interesting sentence!
Everyone tells me I should not worry about population explosion - the Earth can accommodate more people. When I was born there were 2.5billion...
Stand by what I said - Of course I should have written CarloD'Est does NOT etc. How can you present history of any Unit (or Army) without...
I have been trying to put together all the bits and pieces I can find on this massacre which does not seem to be well documented - probably...
Bitter Victory: The Battle for Sicily, 1943, Dutton (New York, NY), 1988. ISBN 9780525244714 If you are looking for an excellent and well...
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Thanks Tamino - nice one.
I think you have to put everything into context. We are talking of the 1930s - the great Depression. Capitalism had spectacularly failed with the...
Well I know that some of the earlier estimates proved to be high once the Soviet archives were opened up - I can only guess that this is the...
Correct, 34,000 sacked - of which 9,500 were arrested by the NKVD. But 11,596 were subsequently reinstated by May 1940. Obviously some of those...
Arca if you are arguing that without the purge of the officer class and elimination of Tuk and his ideas that the Red Army would have initially...
Excellent work arca - but how do you justify this statement. As I read it, Halkin Gol was a small, rather traditional battle with open wings and...
Tamino - we are no longer part of an Empire and I don't see any depersonalisation of the Afghan people in the press or TV - on the contrary they...
[IMG] Looks pretty minor Tamino compared to other routes and why spend at least $30billion for the US (and UK £11 billion) just to get a few...
[IMG] [IMG] Come on Tamino - seriously! - guess which view is Kabul and which is Grozny (Chechnia) Very interesting comments on Chechens by...
[IMG] If I were he I would be leaving now - your friendly Afghans treatment of President Najibullah, deserted by the Soviets.
Not bad USMC Price but still not fully descriptive of the ethnic, political and social divisions in Afghanistan. About the only thing they agree...
And the British Soldier was rich in 1939 versus the French - don't know the difference but it was large and created problems when the Poilu could...
Come to think of it there is not reason no to publish it here - [IMG]
