Hindsight is easy and all that but I think its Beevor who makes the point that the Germans main goal on the Eastern Front was encirclements (huge Cannae style battles) didn't do the obvious thing at … (View Post)

Have been listening to the Rest is History on 1914. The Eastern Front campaigns are eye opening. Huge clashes, vast casualties, almost unheard of in the UK and France with our Western Front obsession… (View Post)

Staff officers were phenomenally hard working officers, and tended to be good at their job. Its not impossible for Darling to have won the MC and been offered a promotion to the staff without a need … (View Post)

Absolutely. Steven J Gould wrote about basketball and the concept of 'hot hands' - essentially a player on a streak of making baskets. Similar to players being 'in form' in cricket etc. When you anal… (View Post)

Long time ago but the John Radcliffe saved my life in 1973. (View Post)