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It is best not to think about it. We won't know how many we've lost until Friday. Time for the new Ecuadorian lad to show his worth :-) We...

He?s talking about World at War, GG, And his narration is brilliant, to the extent that they can be.

It's Michael Redgrave, Chief. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_War_(TV_series) The won about the war with Pershing, not Patton.

Larry Olivier was the narrator.

Ive been watching it on YouTube. Never seen it before

Yeah, with a Redgrave doing the narration, I think. It was purrfect.

See above. The WW1 won is genius as well.

Which one? The really old BBC one from the 60s?

I read Goodby to all That years ago. I was always more interested in Rupert Brooke.. I grew up with a grandfather (the other one) who despised...

See above. The WW1 won is genius as well.

I was really lucky that when I spent the best part of a week in an isolation ward at Homerton hospital, I had a tv in the room. It was the time when...

That series is quite magnificent. Everybody should watch it.

Oh, I was the same. Fischer Thesis for WW1 and Hitler's long term plans as the causes of WW2. But then I saw the BBC adaptation of Pat Barker's...

:nod: If I was only allowed to watch one TV series, it would be The World at War.

I have the same view of pretty much every war. I am more interested in the causes and long lasting effects than I am the war itself. WW2 is the...

I probably should read that. One of my grandfathers was stationed in Burma during the war. He came back a qualified mechanic with a love of curry...

Oh, I get that. It's just I did W3K for one of my courses and later did a course on the changeover from the Enlightenment to Romanticism 1780-1830. ...

There are many, many things that are simultaneously of tremendous significance and of no interest whatsoever to me. I'm a later modernist.

I think the genuinely hard of thinking just found it funny and probably couldn't place it as WWI. You are really referring to people you don't...

But the Eng Civ War {W3K} is one of the most fascinating things in UK and Euro history. It bookends the changeover from the walls of religion period...

Blackadder has a lot to answer for. That communist Ben Elton taught a whole generation that the first world war was a pointless farce and that all...

No, i have no real interest in stuff like that. I don't generally read for fun, it's for a purpose. And I don't have an opinion on fhe English...

I was about to say the same. Well played, Bukayo :-\

At least Saka got a full 90 minutes under his belt for England in a totally pointless game. Again! That will do him good :-(

Not really, no. It's as though they only invented football as the North's revenge for centuries of real and perceived social and economic...

Or winning 2-0 at anfield in the last minute (and they tried to disallow the first goal). So you are saying we are ****ed no matter what we do? ...

PS - HANG ON: "I'm not really a fan of history as comedy." Which means you either haven't read or don't appreciate the Flashman books. In...

I can't even remember who The Darkness are. Name vaguely rings a bell. But name me one serious historian who has encapsulated the Civil War's...

Speaking of which, what's he like against left-handers? Can't really remember.