2nd Author Recommendation

Sir Max Hastings

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Education

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• book

[ravenbones1]

DVD's are for amateurs - playing Call of Duty on a HD tv is the way to go these days

[nzww2buff]

@ravenbones1 LOL! Yeah Gary - I'll bet that COD stuff came in useful for your during your TOD in Iraq.

[ravenbones1]

@nzww2buff Yes, because according to some O.D.S. boonie cap sunglass wearing) F.A. types on YT I was a POG - LOL and ROFL

Nice dagger collection you are building there !!!! I (rather unfortunately) attended a funeral for a Veteran of the Battle of the Bulge today and saw a VERY impressive collection he had brought home, when I told the family some prices their collective heads spun

[nzww2buff]

@ravenbones1 That guy is mental. No doubt about it. Sorry about the Vet. They are falling over with incredible speed now, sadly. I hope the family holds onto the 'bring-back' stuff. if not.........give 'em my number! :)

[scarlebloke]

@davidgcalderone Yes, very true. If I remember rightly I think that two thirds of German crew-served guns, three quarters of their fighter strength and 2 million personnel were deployed for the air defence of the Reich. This diversion of resources and the obliteration of German war production were vital in defeating Germany. This is forgotten now as it gets mixed up in the supposed war crimes debate.

[ArmedBrit]

@sudaev

Depends on who you read I suppose. US writers tend to discount British & Commonwealth forces as sideshows in my experience.

[sudaev]

@ArmedBrit - No, no, I don't mean just "bias"; many British authors have have contempt for the US military; I never read anything close to that type of attitude towards Brits from American authors.

[ArmedBrit]

@sudaev

you tar all uk authors with the same brush, indeed the same could be said of some US authers/journos onthe bias front.

I point you to the book i reccomended ted in the responses to this vid, the author was very even handed in critisism of the main actors. Equally he gave praise to those who warrented it.

[ArmedBrit]

@Mr420pot420

the "forgotten voices" series of books is good for direct quotes.

[ArmedBrit]

I got all hell let lose for christmas, I've used bomber command for referencing in my degree, I should really get around to reading his stuff. though have a book that I'd like to reccomend for you ted

Scorched Earth, Black Snow: The First Year of the Korean War by

Andrew Salmon (as a newbie to korea i must say it was enlightening and well written and heartily reccomend it.I cant wait to get his other work on korea).

[davidgcalderone]

As a former member of the Mighty 8th Air Force (NOT during WWII, I am not that old) I am glad to see the book on what bomber command did during WWII. I get tired of hearing how the Russians really beat the Germans because of the Eastern Front, with no mention of the impact of the bombing campaign by the US and British. I do not remember anyone taliking about the skies black over Germany with Russian Bombers!

[ONKlub]

I mean no offense by the way.

[ONKlub]

Hastings is qualified to write about British forces but I don't put any stock in his assessments of US forces due to his extreme bias, as someone else here pointed out.

I also note, Ted, that apparently this Rick Atkinson also is very negative regarding US forces (in N. Africa). I realize that it's imperative to study what went wrong and why, but I wonder why the two authors you promote are both hyper-critical of the US Army.

[ravenbones1]

@nzww2buff I certainly will, My Dad doesn't like to drive too much, I started taking him to his Veteran meetings, next thing I know they elect me president of the chapter!!! At each meeting I make it a point to tell the Vets they should remind their families, or put me in their Last Will.