Hastings is very good on NA, and everything he wrote about it was completely consistent with my Dad's factual reports of the war there. (View Post)

The North Africa campaign in WW2 has the reputation of having been a 'clean' war. I've heard a number of anecdotes to that effect and can add one from my Dad's war experience. He … (View Post)

Yes, it was a real shame. He was an outstandingly good poster but had this peculiar fixation with the holocaust. It's in the nature of the Site though that people come and go for all sorts of re… (View Post)

The Hutton report found that he stopped short of lying but that he distorted the truth to the extent that it pretty much amounted to the same thing. The properly nuanced account takes into considerat… (View Post)

Oh. They're getting beat. (View Post)