The state has an abhorrence of anybody owning slaves, it prefers to own them itself. As for the original question, I would imagine that everybody was...
Even in WW1, there were air-raids on the the Britsh mainland towns and cities by the Germans but I didnt know that many Zeppelins and later on Gotha...
A weird situation for the Japanese finding themselves on the same side as the Russians who they had fought only a few years before. Interesting to...
It's always bugged me as to why the Germans let Spain retain her neutrality. Spain was a haven for allied agents and escapees not to mention the...
When I was a kid, my parents used to take me camping in the Normandy region of France. One year we went and it was the anniversary of D-Day landings...
To be fair, their was going to be a civil war whoever won the election as the Republican leader had already promised to rise up against the...
Didnt the GIs take advantage of this though by hunting in pairs? one would fire his shots till his clip pinged and as soon as the enemy stuck their...
Its still relatively cheap compared to other forms of bombardment so in that sense I can see its appeal. Certainly light artillery such as mortars...
I still think nothing can beat the Luger in the looks department. Something about it just shouted 'elite' whenever you saw one being pulled out in a...
Didnt the US lose a stealth fighter/bomber in the Yugoslavia campaign? Surely that has made the chiefs of staff look again at stealth as the be-all...
I am going to beslightly awkward about this and sing the praises of the Stug III. It's not one of the more well-known German tanks but it was cheap...
Best all round tank was probabl;y the T34, specifically the T34/85 with its improved firepower. As for giant tanks that could mix it with the Tiger...
Well I'm from the UK and what little we were taught about the civil war was that it was slavery. As someone mentioned earlier, it's only as you get...
I think Jackson brought a sense of discipline to his army that was slightly anathema to the rest of the Southern armies so whilst everyone else made...
I'm struck by the parallels in these campaigns in that Allied forces managed an outflanking sea landing that caught the opposition by surprise and...
Just reading "Twelve days on the Somme" by Sidney Rodgerson. Quite simply a magnificent description of what life was really like in the trenches,...
I was only a youngster at the time of this war but I can remember the news reports like they were yesterday. The reason I'm on this thread is the...
Pearl Harbor. The fighter sequence in the aftermath of the attack where they weave in and out of hangars and shoot down everything in sight is...
I can't imagine Rommel would have been charged with 'war crimes' per se, there was too much testimony from the Allies about how he fought a...
It's difficult to find out what happened to British soldiers who deserted after the war, as most of the focus here has been on trying to get a pardon...
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