Hi; Somebody high in NAZI command was passing information to the USSR via the Lucy spy network. Book Review: Hitler's Traitor: Martin Bormann and...
IRU; I would also factor in the terrain around Moscow (Ivan the Terrible chose his Capitol wisely!). http://grognard.com/bfm/map.pdf Hitler...
Great stuff and thank you Em Esber! Em Esber Blog 1: Images during the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii and the Japanese occupation of the...
Efestos; Yes Moscow was a rail hub and it's capture would have been a severe blow to the Soviet supply net. A fatal blow? Perhaps and perhaps...
Patr1ck; You could start here;...
Thanks Ulrich; ANd my kids find recolorizations (I say "recolorization" as the original scene was no doubt in color and no doubt the photographer...
Hi; A colorization of another great photo-took me all morning what with a combination of color burns and hand painting blended into the burn. The...
LJ; I am certain the German troopers crushed by Operation Bagration would disagree with you about the negligibility of the ever snowballing Red...
Ulrich; Thanks! Black and White purists are horrified that the old photos are being colorized by Photoshop techniques but...well so long as they...
Great stuff! Took the liberty of Photoshop enhancing the Armia Czerwona shot and I hope this is OK. Are there any English accounts of AC...
IRU; I look forward to Mark Solonin's English translations. We in the West grew up with our share of fairy tales about WWII also-ie. the chief...
Carl; Thanks for the tip on Pyl'Cyn-on it's way right now. An ebook; Moscow 1941: A City and Its People ... - Google Books JEffinMNUSA
Who have yet to receive their due in their various homelands; In Yiddish by Chava Alberstein. YouTube - Jewish Partisans Tribute And there is more...
In Minneapolis, William Dudley Pelley organized a Silver Shirt Legion to "rescue" America from an imaginary Jewish-Communist conspiracy. In...
The Samuel H. Grant story; I WILL COME BACK JeffinMNUSA
CC; The Axis forces in Russia found themselves fighting a two front war (that was caused largely by genocidal NAZI policies); Rear Area Security...
THANK YOU ZA RADINU! I am too lazy to hand paint every single item on an old B&W so how is this for a compromise-I color burn the whole thing in...
I use colored gradiant maps and burn them in. QUick-dirty an done. But the results seldom produce recolored B&W photos of this quality and some...
Gordon; Grossman makes for some difficult reading; Review: A Writer at War by Vasily Grossman | Books | The Guardian I myself had to skip over the...
Ray; I am wondering if he didn't hand color these great old photos. If it was done digitally I would sure like to know how-I have been fiddling...