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Jeez, well that told me. I know the drill here though, in response to such a wet response I mug you off as a pant wetting soft cock snowflake, and you duly damp yourself in a fit of self righteous indignation........and bish bash bosh and I will be duly “removed from discussion” from a 3rd...

Agreed, just finished Max Hastings The Secret War that provides an insight into all the main protagonists intelligence arrangements in WW2. Your point about the secrecy of ULTRA is well made, interestingly when the US were bought into the tent they took a different view. I think it was Nimitz...

Ha, no problem. I think your point makes sense when there are secrets to protect, however the imitation game was just trite schmaltz, and a tragic waste of opportunity to provide the much richer story there was at Bletchley. When I saw the scene about Turing breaking a code then saving a...

Britain’s army post WW1 returned to its pre WW1 size, which meant GB remained a major global military power. GB still had the Empire and outside of its four “home” commands (made up of dozens of divisions) it also had military assets around the world. The RN was still the world’s biggest and...

There’s no doubt that WW1 left a profound mark on both France and Britain, I am not doubting that, but the long burn of appeasement by both Govts in allowing Germany to re-arm and re-militarise the Rhineland in the 20s and 30s were the wrong decisions. Prevarication and avoiding difficult...

In what way is it a tired myth that Chamberlain was an appeaser? The facts are that Hitler played Chamberlain like a 2 penny flute, Chamberlain believing that Hitler was a man he could “do business with”. Chamberlain was not only an appeaser he was a naive fool. Had Chamberlain been more...

As a point of order, before the war the Polish had built 3 complete Enigma machines and were breaking German codes before WW2 such was their preparations for dealing with an aggressive Germany. They offered the machines to Britain and France and their cryptologists were taken out of Poland when...