. The fatal weakening of the Byzantine was the result of the disaster of Manzikert 1071 , as a result the new emperor called for military help...
. It's all like corpcasselbury said , the first year of the war was a race to see whom could loose the war , the soviets threw away...
. Smeghead , The Muslim expansion out of Arabia took on the Persian sassanids ( followers of zoroaster ) , the byzantine empire (...
. Most language structure have been set in the neolithic age , the vocabulary is only the bit of fluff added to it , I have a tip for you in...
. There also was the small problem of supplies, tiger armor was high alloy cold rolled also it needed a lot of specialized labor to assemble...
. Younger soldiers have not much sense that what they see happening is " real " I mean there is no deep emphatic feeling , what they see is...
. They did O.K. with not much , fighting well , loosing well and going for a second round straight away ! This Suomi fighting spirit was...
. Yep by 44 the blitzkrieg was only alive in some deluded German brain it must be added that the U.S. artillery was in fact awesome , if...
. At least , they had a good tank , the Pershing~Patton was an excellent design and it looked good too !! In spite of all the arguments , I...
. Yes , they are that , as for the Mennonite and Anabaptists, kin souls that they are , have also some pretty ugly skeletons in their past...
. The Rosenbergs didn't give the atomic bomb to Stalin , the soviets had enough brains to make one , however the data supplied by them confirmed...
. Yes I was thinking of Rommel crossing the Meuse , his command vehicle was equipped with four radio sets and on the second day he changed an...
. It should be pointed out that the allied kept the battlefield and could do some salvage, while the Germans lost plenty who couldn't be...
. Reading A, Beevor the spanish civil war ...I had a though He describe the battles ( with tanks ) as little more than a frontal push of...
. Those were the days of magnificent men in ridiculous machines to get back on the WW1 tanks ,compared to the 1945 machines , they were...
. :D Agree on pretty much everything ! For information on the Bleriot altitude rating , after crossing the channel it couldn't get...
. Maybe simply because Brits and U.S. tanks regularly walked into ambush ( the price of advancing ) or were thrown into massive assault (...
. flooding polish slaves laborers like rats was only part of it , the disruption to the electricity production and the destruction of the...
. first it was the Saudis in the seventies , then the Japaneses in the eighties now it's the Chineses in the noughties people keep buying...
. Look on the bright side The arab expression " the mother of all .... " as now become a cherished expression in English :D :D :D .
