The issue with Africa is tribalism, call it mind-set if you prefer, and it takes generations to change that. Went to visit my grandparent's home...
I'm Italian and I found this in my daily paper, was waiting to see if anyone was interested before going to the trouble of translating but Skipper...
We should add bombing the Caucasus oil fields to the list of bad ideas supported by Churchill, even more likely than a landing in Finland to have...
This looks a lot more complicated than I thought, multilateral treaties, bilateral agreements, automatic and conditional escalator clauses make...
IMO that the big 3 felt the need for the Casablanca declaration, that pracically guaranteed the Germans would fight to the end, and probably...
Maybe known but nice pictures Attempting to post the link with IE...
You will not find grenadiers (granatieri), line infantry (fanti) and alpini in the same division, far less a chemical battalion that was a corps...
First time I heard of Soviet-British treaty, the British were not likely to worry overmuch about anything based in Vladivostock. I found little...
How would that have worked ? all current ships were "superdreadnoughts" and that would create huge incentive to keep then active as long possible...
I think the big point is that unless explicitly denounced the Washington treaty was still in place, so the raising of the calibre to 16" was an...
I knew the North Carolinas were initially intended to have 14" guns like the KGV, but I found little evidence an improved 14" was under...
From what I've read of Typhoon the Germans after clearing the initial pockets suffered from a pretty bad case of overconfidence, not sure they...
The 38(t) has a very distinctive MG mount in the center of the front plate that's missing here, but the Czech factories made a lot of "variants"....
According to the commentary it took an engineer battalion 9 days to repair the railroad bridge that linked the town to Italy, interesting...
What is the tank at 2:06 ? doesn't look either a Pz 35(t) or Pz 38(t) and no other common German tanks had bolted armour.
I was a fanatical wargamer and still pay whenever I get a chance, but despite ASL opponents being slightly easier to find I dropped out of that...
I also enjoyed Sven in my teens, never picked then up after that though as "suspension of disbelief" is a requirement for me to enjoy fiction and...
The choice was not between two tyrants, it was between a tyrant and a madman who had publicly declared he wanted exterminate the Russians (and a...
All of the fast 35.000 were completed after the escalator clause was invoked,but designs were finalized a lot earlier and the big guns had to be...
Wouldn't say you do not read famine anyplace in Soviet accounts, I have very few Soviet primary sources but food shortages are mentioned. It was...
