The Maginot Line isn't 200 miles high
As Modern Mechanix author says,
this story from 1934 has a nice juxtaposition of two stories on France and Germany, although of course the Germans didn't actually use rockets to bypass the Maginot Line.
Labels: War
Betrayal
David Horowitz emails me from his Desk:
America's most staunch ally in the war on terror is in great danger.
Bloody hell! There's nothing about it on the BBC. In fact the BBC is still working, so I assume there's been no attack yet. But what can he mean? Are their French ships in the channel? Argentinians on the Shetlands?
Our ally is Israel, and it has been in great danger since it was founded sixty years ago
Oh.
Labels: War
Cheek to cheek
Well there you
go. We knew Dick Cheney was Machiavellian, but I never thought he would stoop to such levels. Talk about provoking the Iranians into a war.
Labels: Iran, War
Falklands War
There's a good BBC Parliament
special on the Falklands War, with original footage being shown in chronological order. At the moment a young looking Roy Hattersley is arguing with an alive-looking Alan Clark.
Update: The QE2 and the Canberra were requistioned for carrying troops into the conflict zone (the QE2 to the edge, the
Canberra faced an even greater danger). What are the grounds for the Government being able to requisition a ship?
Cunard is now owned by the American
Carnival Corporation, as are
P&O Cruises, who I presume are the heirs of the Canberra type ships (P&O is of course also foreign-owned, but by Dubai Ports Worlds, not Carnival). I assume the Government can't requisition foreign-owned ships, unless they were in UK waters at the time, and even then it might be considered strange. Or if they are still registered in the UK, would that make a difference?
Labels: War
World War II in colour
I've seen the TV progammres, but I wasn't aware of this
excellent website, with
hundreds of colour photographs of German, British, American, Soviet and Japanese forces in action (and some domestic ones too).
This of
Himmler and Heydrich in SS black is pretty sinister, as, I thought, just this one of
Himmler. I've always wondered - was that silly haircut common at that time, or was it just him?
Goering looks as ridiculous as usual, while Otto Skorzeny, Hitler's oddjob man (jobs like taking on most the Italian army singlehandedly, that sort of thing), just looks
hard (though apparently that scar is from
fencing). Oh, and the world's first
jet bomber.
Labels: Nazis, War
