Just a note on Hitler's reading list. One of his favorite authors as a young man was Karl Mays, a German who wrote adventure books in the late...
just outof curiosity I did aquick Google and found this: an article from the NY Times, August 27, 1901 comparing Russian and American grain...
Something I was pondering over my morning coffee. The German plan in May, 1940 was extremely risky. If the French hadn't been saddled with aged...
Just finishing up Tom Snyder's "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin." According to Snyder Stalin in the '30's feared a...
Thanks for the information and the links. Given the location of Vladivostok I'd always assumed it was effectively blocked off from shipping from...
Just an off the wall question, brought up by a comment in a book I've been reading. Russia didn't declare war on Japan until the very end. Was any...
I remember as a kid, must have been early 60's, reading a short article in either Popular Science or Popular Mechanics about the process of...
Just started "Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin" by Timothy Snyder. He makes a comment relevant to this, except in Snyder's view it...
