Well, yes and no. Without going too far into the morality of the situation, I think I can reasonably suggest that the British were responsible, in...
Right, back to it. This is such an emotive subject that I feel it necessary to point out that this scenario is postulated as attempting to be...
Fred You're absolutely right - but the public consumption version was because of the submarine warfare, I think. But yeah - fundamentally America...
So far, I have written my personal take on the history behind the events that occurred in May and June 1940, and a brief look at the leaders of the...
Consider Churchill’s career over the previous fifty odd years. In his varying capacities as a British Army officer and war correspondent, Churchill...
That the British did not - in Hitler’s view, at least - ‘see sense’ and call for an armistice is, in my opinion, largely down to the influence and...
I think it is time to review and question the intentions of the National Socialist regime - by which I essentially mean the intentions of Adolf...
EDIT TO PREVIOUS POST First Paragraph should read Of course, the May 1940 ‘Blitzkreig’ , with the Germans feinting through the Low Countries and...
Of course, the May 1940 ‘Blitzkreig’ , with the Germans feinting through the Low Countries and drawing the cream of the Allied forces north into the...
One of Wilson’s Fourteen Points suggested the establishment of a ‘League of Nations’ , a body intended to resolve international conflicts without...
What interests me here - and a point that seems to me to be of salient foreshadowing for the following conflict - is America’s behaviour regarding...
Britain may have justified her involvement in the war by claiming she was protecting the rights of ‘Brave little Belgium’, but she was, in fact,...
All this innovation needed time, huge investment and determination to effect. Time was the one thing the UK did not have in the late 1930’s. As...
In the period under consideration, the British introduced the following weapons into full scale production; The ‘Matilda’ Infantry Tank, one of the...
In the event, of course, Poland was invaded on the 1st of September, 1939 by the Germans, and by the USSR on the 17th. Britain, nor France, lifted...
OK. We've had a couple of what I would suggest to be 'emotional' responses to the question I posted about ten days ago. The question asked was;...
This is a sort of follow-up to Fred's discussion as to whether the US would have declared war on Germany if Hitler hadn't declared war first. A...
Fred, agreed, we've gone off topic, sorry. However, if Hitler had not declared war, I still think the USA would not have declared war on Germany....
Goodness, what is there NOT to like about Slim? Came from a modest background, proved his personal bravery on numerous occasions during the First...
Stephen, I'm going to bow to your superior knowledge regarding the percentage of German forces serving on the Eastern Front - that will teach me to...
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