Impressive stuff Drew. At the beginning there is reference to De Gaulle taking over command in Syria - was that true? If so, when did it happen.
Good point Skipper - I have tried to find 23rd May news for the BBC but without success so far.
Skipper - Honestly don't know and obviously difficult to prove but from what I remember it was basically those the Germans thought would support...
Referenced to forces fighting in Belgium and Holland. It did not collapse - even when the Belgians surrendered the BEF managed to fill the 20...
Can't put my finger on it but I have seen quoted that the Germans assessed the not inconsiderable number of French Generals that were held at...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTi7A7Fgulk A touch of wishful thinking? This is the News on 23rd May 1940, shown in French Cinemas The French...
But this is really where strategically Hitler made a big mistake. The Kaiser's Generals were in no doubt that Britain was the main enemy. Quite...
Since lwd's post seems to have been submerged in a deluge of recommendations, I will repeat it again. Quartered Safe Out Here by...
Stunning military defeat certainly but political? Austria, Czechoslovakia, German-Soviet Pact were stunning political achievements - on balance,...
We are not complaining in (relatively) dry Yorkshire - just normal rainfall for the season and pleased there is no snow.
Naked Island by Russell Brandon - Australian POW of the Japanese - if you can still get hold of it.
Bix more or less agrees with Hasegawa. At the conclusion of the Okinawa defeat in June, the debate in the ruling establishment of Japan, that is...
Surely misspelt? I thought it was Limy or Limey (from the fruit - lime). But in the past it was more usual to use England as the term covering...
No fire - just thanks. Fascinating read I had thought that the "fire" had gone cold!
Thanks for that. I joined up which was easy and in about 15 minutes completed a page of 10th Royal Welsh Fusiliers (which was my great uncle's...
[IMG] You have put your finger on one of the reasons for British Decline - disproportionate spending on Defence compared to GDP in an ailing...
I have the digitised War Diary of one of my Grandfathers (the other Grandfather's has not been digitised)- 15th Battalion Welsh Regiment already...
USMC I have been reading more on this topic, the Blighted Blossom, Hirothito and Making of Modern Japan, Bill Slim's Autobiography etc and the...
Very very bad things and a much worse scale than anyone else Yes but this does not excuse in one iota the the scale of barbarity excised by Japan...
[IMG] I think it was well documented that Polish Pilots shot down Germans. Above from Forgotten Voices series
