17th September 1940. Hitler announces the indefinite postponement of Unternehmen Seelöwe (Operation Sea Lion), the invasion of the United Kingdom during the Battle of Britain. This is largely due to the failure to establish both an air and naval superiority that would have allowed for a quick decisive attack. Giles Milton is a familiar name […]
The boundaries of Europe, the allegiances of the various empire-countries and their motivations were vastly different and infinitely more convoluted during the Great War than they were during World War 2. The rigid socio-political norms of the time were accompanied by class upheavals in almost all the participant countries, which had a butterfly effect on […]
WW2 may have been won by the Allies, but even today the scribes of the victors cannot stop themselves from paying backhanded compliments to their erstwhile enemies. They tell stories where the Allies win in the end, but throughout the story it is the adversary who is shown to be smarter, fitter, more moral (or […]
War Crows 