Status Updates From Command: How the Allies Lea...

I guess I'm a Percy Hobart fan now...

The 6th Airborne Division is due a mini series, à la Band of Brothers.

Thirty years from now when you're sitting by your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks, 'What did you do in the great World War Two?' You won't have to cough and say, 'Well, your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say 'Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!'

Orde Wingate was a nutter alright.

Not enough is known about the second world war in Burma here in the west.

This book sure likes its tangents. Not complaining, I'm just learning a lot of things I didn't necessarily intend on learning, alas, knowledge is knowledge.

They should make another film about Turing and Bletchley park, but not shit.