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- Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:23 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4051
Re: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
Thanks chaps, will follow those up... was having a peek at this in the meantime: http://books.google.com/books?id=fqUSGevFe5MC&printsec=frontcover&dq=occupation+and+collaboration&hl=en&ei=4d7yTJzWKcrGswbgxIGdCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwA...
- Tue Jul 19, 2011 5:16 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4051
Re: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
Hi Krichter I'm certainly getting that impression - neither Ian Allen nor the IWM shop had anything promising, although the most obscure aspects of WWII seem to be covered, there's even a large glossy tome on Wermacht rations (the processed cheese in tubes sounds particularly unappetising). Odd how ...
- Mon Jul 18, 2011 8:07 am
- Forum: Books and Reviews
- Topic: Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4051
Anti-guerilla operations in Balkans
Had a quick nose around the Ian Allen shop today, but apart from a Skorzeny memoir, there didn't seem to be much available on the above subject... can anyone recommend a decent read on the Balkan anti-partisan area of things? Cheers in advance!
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:05 am
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Humor in the Wehrmacht
- Replies: 122
- Views: 129297
Re: Humor in the Wehrmacht
Ok so now we've worked up to another long one! A serviceman is dying in a hospital bed. Feebly he calls out to the nurse. 'Sister, tell me, who have I made this sacrifice for?' 'Why, the German people, as personified by our fuhrer!' 'Can he be here by my side in these last moments sister?' 'Well no,...
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 1:09 pm
- Forum: War Crimes
- Topic: Himmler. The final days.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4007
Re: Himmler. The final days.
General consensus seems to be that one of his deepest-set characteristics was 'incredible naivety'. That and indecisiveness, which might explain why he threw on an eye patch and a borrowed uniform in May '45 rather than put his negotiating abilities to the test!
- Thu Jun 23, 2011 12:49 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Humor in the Wehrmacht
- Replies: 122
- Views: 129297
Re: Humor in the Wehrmacht
If it's brevity you're after - what has gold in its teeth, silver in its hair and lead in its bones?
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- Wed Jun 22, 2011 4:11 pm
- Forum: General WWII German Military Discussion
- Topic: Humor in the Wehrmacht
- Replies: 122
- Views: 129297
Re: Humor in the Wehrmacht
On the broader subject of humour in Germany at the time, I just chanced across a book entitled 'dead funny', dealing with that subject, which featured examples such as: Hitler is being driven through the countryside by his chauffeur. There is a thump; they have run over a chicken close to a farmhous...
- Fri May 27, 2011 1:05 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4664
Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
By crikey Ginger, they're showing it again! And this week, that great episode - the only one I'd seen in the interim since its original showing, as they chose to show it as a one-off in the 90s - of the Brit who tries to swing a passage home by faking insanity, but going too far into it and actually...
- Tue May 03, 2011 12:47 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Dresden TV drama
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3184
Dresden TV drama
Annoyingly, I kept dropping in and out of consciousness while this was on the other night (due to the late hour of the broadcast, it was anything but boring). Appears to have been a fairly recent made-for-TV drama showing the leadup to the 1945 raid from both sides. Anyone else catch it, would be in...
- Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:38 am
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4664
Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Secret Army was genius - multi-leveled moral ambiguity, sympathetic and non-sympathetic characters on both sides, and of course Clifford Rose as Kessler, a nightmare splicing of Himmler and Grange Hill's Mr Bronson! Not so sure about that Enemy At The Door thing, the casting of that bloke from Hi Di...
- Fri Apr 08, 2011 11:34 am
- Forum: Luftwaffe
- Topic: Dornier 17 salvage
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3993
Dornier 17 salvage
Just caught the tail end of a piece on the news, they've located a downed DO17 either in coastal or estuary waters and looking at retrieving it... apparently no other surviving examples?
- Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:21 am
- Forum: Foreign Volunteers, Collaboration and Axis Allies
- Topic: Yesterday Channel's Nazi Collaborators series
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2989
Yesterday Channel's Nazi Collaborators series
Not sure how old this series is, but it's been on fairly constant rotation weeknights on Yesterday Channel. Interesting documentaries anyhow, including one on Mannerheim, which surprised me slightly as I had the feeling he'd taken care to keep the relationship as strictly 'co-belligerent' and kept n...
- Fri Jan 14, 2011 12:15 pm
- Forum: Verboten! - Off topic content
- Topic: Arizona shooter cited Mein Kampf in online postings...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 12401
Re: Arizona shooter cited Mein Kampf in online postings...
Don't ALL crazed gunmen read MK? Picked one up in Borders once, regretted it within paragraphs. Hate to think what the sequel was like.
- Thu Dec 02, 2010 12:31 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4664
Re: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Sorry, that's the Yesterday channel, not yesteryear... from what I recall the 'glider in the attic' was also a true story? Can't tear myself away from this on weeknights... although I think I've missed the episode in which the bloke tries to get himself sent home on a fraudulent insanity ticket and ...
- Fri Nov 26, 2010 12:38 pm
- Forum: Soldatenheim
- Topic: Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
- Replies: 7
- Views: 4664
Colditz reruns on Yesteryear channel
Apart from the odd isolated episode, I haven't seen this series in 35 years, so it's great to see it again and nice to see how well it still stands up as a well-produced TV drama. Curious though, how close to history did the scriptwriters stick? Over the four episodes this week, the Commandant has s...