The effect of the Red Army was a slower version of the same thing!
Got the lot and very good stuff indeed. I take Buckley's point that lack of 'doctrine' may not have been the failing it has been presented as,...
I'm inclined to agree. Once the Germans were pushed out of the favourable defensive terrain in Normandy they were in the same boat as the Germans...
The interesting thing for me is that I have underestimated the 'threat' further east around Calais and considered the latent threat in the west...
Had the German war lasted any longer the much vaunted Tiger II, Panther etc would have disappeared in a mushroom shaped cloud. Surendering in May...
Would Chanel 5 freeze in the Russian winter? Would we have to gather round the femmes Francaise and blow on them to warm them up?
The book I'm ploughing through has much detail on German assumptions and the way that the Allies were able to convince them that the Pas de Calais...
What would all the Red Army captured at Kiev have been doing if AGC had gone for Moscow first? As it happens I can't imagine a German victory in...
I would have thought StugIII or IV would have worked better. In Normandy as far as I know 2/3 of German AT guns were self-propelled - harder to...
Terrain had a lot to do with it. In the first couple of weeks after D-day the British unit commanders realised that they needed much closer...
Er...eh? PGW was in the east end of the bridgehead. I found...
:D p.606 [On the eve of 'Cobra' 24th July] ...most were in the Panzer group West area (seven infantry divisions, eight panzer divisions and two...
'. . .on 28thJune Panzer Group West had taken over...opposite the British and Canadians with three panzer corps and one army corps.....Hausser had...
Kursk a year early?
No, I see your burden and raise you Phil 'Smiler' Larkin This Be The Verse They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they...
Hmmm, it makes the success of Fortitude all the more impressive. Apparently even when forces were moved from 15th army they had to be replaced...
can I be Minister of Dreadlocks?
When I were a lad in the dark days of the 1970's the rehearsals for the review of the RAF at Finningley 1977 flew over my house - Vulcans (and...
~~~~~the older, more senior bracket~~~~~ Are these the ones who daren't answer the door in case it's Claude Lanzmann?
The 'European sword' idea was one of many. 'Britain' had succeeded where France failed. For the moment Hitler had the chance of a one front war...
