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17-01-2008, 03:44 AM
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__________________ Spidge,  ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm | |
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18-01-2008, 10:56 AM
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| Top Moose   Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Under the stairs
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 | Finished it , won't be reading anymore of his books. Spends far too much time on break down of the UK-USA relationship. Gives full credit to the Americans for beating the Germans in the Bulge, thought I'd make that clear, he just wanted to make the point it wasn't just an American battle. I thought the book would an in depth look at the British involvement in the Ardennes it's not. It's a general out-line of the battle with some British bits thrown in. Masses of inaccurancies, he also repeats himself unnecessarily.(Which I will now do myself) Like I said before he does stress the fact that the battle was fought by very young men (then again aren't all wars?) led by a High Command who fought their own PR war and tried to score points off each-other. Anyone wants it, just PM me & I'll post them the book. I don't want it anymore. |
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18-01-2008, 01:19 PM
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18-01-2008, 08:20 PM
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| Charles Whiting also fictionalised as Leo Kessler,something akin to the output of Sven Hassel. One interesting fact on the cost of the Battle of the Bulge. SHAEF recorded the US First and Third Army casualties as follows, a total of 75.282 Killed 8.407 Wounded 46.170 Missing 20.905 German figures are not available, but von Rundstedt's HQ estimated Wehrmacht casualties at not less than 120.000 of which 12.652 were known to be have been killed. |
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