And, lastly, threads like this proving contentious? We discuss issues realted to conflict in all four corners of the globe. Much of what comes...
I might point out, Martin, I am also the author of the "Like' thread of the U.S. In both threads I pointed out that I was an Amero-phile. I still...
I'll say this from the outset. I'm an Amerophile. I love the very fabric of American society, it's history, it's people, what I saw of the...
Sirs and Madam, Our news service, the ABC, the 28th most trusworthy news service in the world, has just reported a story from Russia, of a...
There are many ironies to the Holocaust. Chief among them, in my view, is the percieved link in Nazi minds between Bolshevism and Judeism. Jewish...
Camp inmates wore stripe---up and down. These are hoops...round and round. Do people make this stuff up? Someone offended by this? find something...
I dont see any other way to be able to overcome the group urge than alcohol. You want them going in all 'pumped'. Alcohol is one of the best ways...
look Lj...if you haven't got anthting to add, if your entire modus operendi is to sit here and pick holes, then push off. Otherwise.... I could...
Take away tobacco from the British soldier and you have instant morale problems. Withdraw the extra water issued to italian soldiers for their...
and just as an aside....could you REALLY imagine the Red Army functioning without vodka? How would they get their infantryman to attack twelve...
I make no apologies for peasant cunning and animal instincts. I have seen both phrases used in straight histories of the Soviet forces. The quip...
Look Adam...i apologise for aking up your time.. You really do have my admiration, and I want to get this and other thing right...for me, for the...
no military service can claim any amount of professionalism with a casualty list like the red Army. 5 million prisoners? Most of the captured...
Only the Scottish folk would see the wartime destruction of golf courses as a national emergency. Can you imagine what a serious blow to morale...
Adam, did you actually, read Mr. Stone's book? Or did you just read a bunch of reviews? I'm only asking because history isn't about just taking...
Don't forget, Norman stone won many kudos for his Great War work. Why should his views on WW2 be rubbished, simply because he doesn't agree with...
There has to be a middle ground. And if the only thing that mattered was who advanced or retreated and why, then we can credit the victory to the...
Poop.....is there any source other than a soviet one that you'll not rubbish? So, in your book, if i'm not using soviet sources, its complete...
Toki...I was trying to be funny. The Scots are prickly when it comes to jokes about their governance, aren't they?
Heres what Professor Norman Stone has to say, from his 2013 book, "WW2; A Short History.", (Penguin, 2013). Notes in brackets and blue by me....
