America 1939-1943

@Witt

Thank you so much! I appreciate your input.

And the Allies never had it during the war? Would the Axis have won. I hear it’s very important.

Has anyone picked up Osprey’s new release of Kursk 1943: The Southern Front?  I’ll mostly likely get it, because I love collecting Osprey titles, but I was wondering how this campaign book was?  Over the years, Osprey, in my opinion, has really improved from being books about troop description and plate coloring to some really well researched, concise and specific history books.

Speaking of Osprey, if anyone has extra books or books they don’t want, of the six History Essentials of World War 2, please let me know.  I’ve been hunting them for sometime and they are always out of stock or super pricey from third party vendors.

Also, the M3 Grease Gun book which came out last year, phenomenal!  Probably one of my favorite in the Weapon series.

Yes Marc, but in that case UK and France could just as well accepted the proposal from the Sovjet Foreign minister Litvinov and marched into Germany in 1933 to arrest Hitler. After all, Hitler did threat to attack USSR in his book Mein Kampf, so nobody could say they didn’t know. It looks like the capitalist Brits hated the commies so much, they wanted Germany to grow strong and kill the commies. So no, I don’t think the Brits or the French would have done anything to prevent the war from starting. It had to be prevented by someone else, like the Terminator coming to 1936 by accident, and mistaking Hitler for John Connor

Thank you Toblerone. I mentioned it, as I was sure the British Army did something like that after WW1 and the horrific losses small villages suffered if a battle went badly. I know you can see memorials in little villages and the long lists make sad reading, without a list of names with the same surname.

i agree…Stalin would have LOVED this outcome…

still amazing how the Finns held off such large numbers of soviet troops with those ski battalions of theirs

Not romance. “Romantizing a period of time” is what I reffer to. It happens all the time. Just like some “romantize” the revolutionary times in the 60’s.

But I’m using illustrations more and more like a creative writer here (which I am) and less like a stone cold Killer or historian.

So lets just get back to business as usual shall we? My Reich armor can pop Shermans like they were balloons.

–-Yeah. I’m now considering myself a Nashorn ace. I don’t recall losing a single battle yet where I had that vehicle. I love that thing. A stone cold, calculated tank obliterator. You just have to keep it safe on the board becuase of it’s weak defense. With it’s ability to ignore one hex of cover, it’s usually not hard to keep that thing in an awesome sniper postion and it’s got the speed to fall back if necessary. Plus – my god, the range alone on that wepon! I love this game.