American Patrol was his hit I think. Elvis did "Muss Ich Denn" in the 50's, but took it from the SS. Picked it up when he was in the Army, most...
Just found this thread so it's a little late. A diplomatic idea that might work (for the Foreign Minister to consider) Break with Germany, declare...
Best generals, tanks, guns and rifles, leaders, and so on. But who had the best songs? Which were the best for each nation and best over all ?...
Poland was clearly not a friend of Stalin. I doubt that anyone thought that Poland could hold off the German attack that was comming. The British...
I just read through the whole thread and would like to respond to several points. On 3/14 the "pocket" battleship--"Bismark" ? Trotski was the...
I saw "Burnt By The Sun - part 1" and found it really interesting. It was a good view into what many Russians today think of yesterday. I'm sorry...
Great work!
Actually, by chance this afternoon I was looking at a catalogue (general junk merchandise) and saw bags of them for sale at a little under $1.00...
Somewhere in an old shoe box I have some script from the occupation of Japan. BTY-there are still a few steel US pennies ($0.01) from 1942 around....
You state the question very clealy. FDR trusted Stalin. Churchill did not, but made "the dirty little paper" on Eastern Europe. Stalin supported...
"The problem with most of the Western historiography, is that it only looks the events and the way they happened, leaving no space for a fluid...
I'm not sure when the disaster would have been greater, '42 or '43 ... but suspect the earlier the worst. Again, look at TORCH to see all the...
I believe we pressed Stalin to enter the war on Japan. He attacked exactly 3 months after VE Day, as he'd promised. Stalin claimed he needed the...
True the big death camps came after the war was going, but Hitler had already started the killing before that (not everyone in Dachau survived,...
While several were opportunistic or fascist, I'm suprised so many saw themselves as their nations 'savior', having no clue as to what they were...
Seems very much on the mark, but for FDR and Churchill there was one real rub. FDR was opposed to imperialism and Churchill did not become PM to...
Perhaps we should call all Canadians --- Yanks Yanks-------- Canucks Brits----------Europeans ? On the Canuck thing... Didn't that affect a...
I agree the Cold War was most likely unavoidable; but to speculate... Churchill delivered the "Iron Curtain" speech and his link to Stalin was...
CAC, to the "I hate war" post #10 on this thread: The holocaust wasn't war, but the murder of civillians that was stopped by war. The US Civil...
FDR, Churchill,and Stalin had a 3 way relationship, but there were the private connections also. FDR and Churchill got very close, Stalin and...
