It sounds perfectly ghastly.
I've just reached a bit where Villy, needing a new frock for Louise's wedding but lacking the coupons, is going to Liberty to seek a suitable table cloth from which to fashion a dress, since linen and tablewear aren't on the ration! Shrood.
I'm with child to learn what she finds. I'm thinking... damask, maybe? Cheesecloth?
Speaking of recent mil-hist books, what's your take on Dresden?
Bombing the fück out of their cities meant that 30% of the manpower, 50% of the artillery and 70% of the aircraft were withdrawn from the Eastern Front for home defence.
So killing Kraut civilians saved the lives of our ally's soldiers. Of course we should do it.
I'm pretty relaxed about Dresden because it happened in a sincere attempt to end a war we didn't start more quickly, which could only be a good thing. The fault lies with the Nazi regime for continuing a doomed war, not with those who did what they could to bring it to an end. The idea that we should get all upset about the deliberate killing of civilians after six years of total war suggests that critics didn't really understand the concept of total war.
And as for the yanks titting on about 'Precision Bombing' and tut-tutting about Dresden when they were killing hundreds of thousands in Tokyo firestorms, they can fúck off.
Agree with all that.
We could have knackered the Nazis in the winter of '39/40 had we bombed the fück out of the Saarland and Rhine industrial areas, but we didn't want to be the ones who started the bombing of civilians.
The Nazis started it by accident during the Battle of Britain, when their bombers overshot the airfields and bombed London by mistake.
But Speer said that if we'd done a Dresden every night for five nights on the trot then the war would have ended. We should have pushed harder, imo.
That’s funny...saw a video yesterday with Joe Rogan talking about Dresden and looking at before / after shots
Whats with Dresden lately? Did I miss something...
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Also google Iron Bottom Sound and look at the ships sunk there...that’s some hit list for a stretch of water imo