@onigoroshi442 Anyway, I know you have a low opinion of Max Hastings, but that is the only history book that I have here at the office. "But given Allied perceptions that if Hitler and his immediate following could be removed, Germany would quickly surrender, it is overwhelmingly likely that if a...
@kentamitchell The Japanese had pulled out of Attu? Hmm. Not according to MY history book. Are you confusing Attu (which was fought to the last banzai charge) with near-by Kiska? The latter WAS abandoned, and the US-Canadian landing on that island still cost over 200 lives due to SNAFU, booby tra...
@onigoroshi442 Anyway, I know you have a low opinion of Max Hastings, but that is the only history book that I have here at the office. "But given Allied perceptions that if Hitler and his immediate following could be removed, Germany would quickly surrender, it is overwhelmingly likely that if a...