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I used to love Steph's mod back in the Far day

No, should I?

Max Hasting's Operation Pedestal on Audiobook - can't stand his opinion pieces in the paper, but he's a decent enough historian The Light Fantastic on Kindle - Re-reading Pratchett because he's my all time favourite author The Body by Bill Bryson in paper format - My favourite living author

Currently replaying Fallout 3 because I feel like going through 3, NV and 4 again

I'm kinda intruiged as to how housing styles or areas has changed over the years and what was considered good in the past is now undesirable. For example in my local city (Liverpool, UK) there has always been a lot of slum housing, right up until even the 60s or 70s. For example it was not...

Also as an aside one type of armour knocked out by the airborne near the Oosterbeek perimeter was repurposed Char B tanks that the Germans had converted into flamethrower tanks. There was also reports that one of Graebner's vehicles may have been a British Humber armoured car. He captured one in...

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That's true, during market garden, in their desperation they adopted a kitchen sink approach, with everything from Panzer IIIs from a training school to King Tigers. The latter wasn't exactly a big hit given that they had to maneuver in the narrow confines of Oosterbeek and were kind of like...

There's an amazing breakdown of the fight here:

Yeah I did read somewhere that its a bit of an amaglam of two real events. One was Frost instructing his subordinate to tell them to get lost, the other was a small group of airborne soldiers at the bridge (possibly Mackay's engineers) being asked if they'd consider surrender during a separate...

Actually more were fired at Antwerp and Belgium (1,664) than London and South East England (1,402). Antwerp was at least in theory targeted for military reasons but the poor accuracy of the V weapons meant it had far more impact on the civilan population than the war effort. One of my favourite...

Would make sense to be fair, like most wonder weapons the V2 was innovative and expanded upon post war, but almost completely counter productive to the war effort. Plus thousands of slave labourers worked and died in hellish camps to construct them, but that probably wasn't unique to the V2 or...

I used to love the old matchbox kits with their little dioramas

Can't speak for anyone else, but I don't think I'm trying to prove that the Germans sucked at tank design or inventing new weapons. I do however think they sucked at grasping that those weapons were a luxury that for the most part their economy could not afford and arguably didn't need. The...

Well I'll give them this, the various wonder weapons were very in keeping with the the government that requested them. Hitler etc were often obsessed with ideas like revenge weapons, the concept of bigger = better, or the idea that with enough will, any problem could be overcome. Logic, common...