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24-04-2008, 08:32 PM
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| Member   Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: England / Estonia
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 | The Court of the Red Tsar by Simon Sebag Montefiore, excellent insight into Stalin and his fellow leaders and their families.
__________________ Nikto ne Zabyt . Nichto ne Zabyto. Let no one forget . Let nothing be forgotten. |
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07-05-2008, 12:56 PM
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| Ermest. R. Mays strange victory, regarding Fall of France 1940, and a rotten read it is too. Author in my view fails to substantiate his opinions with fact. Ignores much recorded fact, and bases some of his theories on a computer generation that when actioned today proves in his view Allies should have beaten the Germans in 1940. A game I might add I once played in Barracks one wet boring day in Rheindhallen and was not the best of strategy games anyway. Ran it on an old Spectrum and certainly does not deserve the praise this author gives to the simulation. |
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13-05-2008, 08:16 AM
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| the deadliest b#tch ever   Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Russian Federation
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| Finished a day ago Saburo Sakai "Samurai!", one of most amazing WW2 book I've read. A must have reading for everyone interesting in WW2 aviation. LEARN MORE: Samurai - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia!
__________________ I DRIVE HONDA. HONDA - POWER IN YOUR ARMS. Grandfather: front medic, caught by nazi in defence of Moscow 1941, placed into POW camp, ran away from camp, got a gangrene, lost left leg, survived war, now RIP. INTERACTIVE BOOK of EASTERN FRONT from 22 june 1941 to 9th may 1945 (5+ hours of show with videos, photos, audio notes from soviet veterans etc.): http://english.pobediteli.ru FEEL FREE TO CORRECT MY ENGLISH! EVERY MAN DIES. NOT EVERY MAN REALLY LIVES.   マキシマムザホルモン [Makishimamu Za Horumon] |
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13-05-2008, 05:21 PM
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| Senior Member   Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Ipswich
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| "Voices from D-Day" by Jonathan Bastable, veterans accounts of their first days in Normandy. Very good so far.
__________________ 51 highland www.keep-em-moving.com Là á Bhlàir's math na Càirdean (Friends are good in the day of battle) Na diobair caraid's a charraid (Forsake not a friend in the fray) Cuimhnichibh na suinn nach maireann . Mairidh an cliu beo gu brath. (In memory of the Heroes who are no more. May their Fame live on forever) |
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16-05-2008, 08:30 PM
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| Angels one-five   Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Somewhere in Time
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| Started 'Forgotten Voices of the Secret War'.
__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron.  |
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20-05-2008, 01:21 AM
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Would be interested to hear what you think of it, I too started it and then put it down again. Am going out tomorrow to get lots of post-it notes ... in meantime have started First Blitz. dbf | |
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20-05-2008, 06:18 PM
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__________________ 'There I stood at the bar, wearing a Mae West, no jacket, and beginning to leak blood from my torn boot. None of the golfers took any notice of me - after all, I wasn't a member!' Kenneth Lee - after being shot down on the 18th August 1940. We had a squadron commander who believed in the head-on attack. 'The next raid we go up to intercept, we will do a head-on attack,' he said. So he attacked an Me 110 head-on and I'm afraid Jerry got the better of him and all we found of him was his shirt! Flying Officer Harold Bird-Wilson, 17 Squadron. | |
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