Search results

Should imagine that the Wests leaders were more interested in preventing Stalin spreading into Europe. A leader who had so many of his own people killed that guesstimates vary between 2 and 60 million people. Modern experts appear to have settled on an agreed figure of 20 million.

Alistair MacLean's first book, and best. HMS Ulysses is a cracking read, for the atmosphere of the Arctic Convoys.

:facepalm: The Poles didn't have any Armed Forces either. Yet thousands of them died as part of Allied forces on land sea and Air. There is some history that cannot be rewritten, where none exists to rewrite.

The beach landing from Saving Private Ryan must be pretty close, watch it on a big screen and crank up the volume, horrendous .

The 15-20,000 were all civilian causalities, due mostly to Allied bombing. I beg your pardon, I have just reread my sauce on the French team and the was not 77 there was 177. All of this is due to Degaulle, his attitude to the British, the Americans and the Communists in his own country. He...

All due to our French friend General Degaulle. With friends like him who needs enemy's.

All those dead from a collection of different nationalities. Where are the French? Presumably there were no deaths among the 77 taking part, making the effort to recapture their own country.