TLW History Thread

[Preston Red]

If anyone is interested, the Netflix docu-series "WWII, From The Frontlines" is worth a watch. Colourised footage but some incredibly shocking stories of brutality.

 

Hamburg was a shocker for me. Flattened the city and sent the bombers back again, the day after, because they missed the post office and got word of a shelter, housing 60,000 civilians, that had to be flattened. There'll always be the counter argument of "Well they bombed London and flattened Coventry", but that shows the futility of war to me. There were no winners, just millions of dead people when it was all over.

[Kepler-186]

Obituary of Mike Sadler, founding member of the SAS and a link to the Long Rang Desert Group, who has passed away age 103. 
 

One of the “Rogue Heroes”. 

 

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/01/05/mike-sadler-desert-navigator-dies/

[Kevin D]

 

[Lee909]

65 years ago today the music died

 

 

[Harry's Lad]

BBC News - Carry On films: The star who helped World War II prisoners escape
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68209738

 

I knew he'd been prisoner of war, captured by The Hitler Youth I read somewhere.

[Bjornebye]

On 17/12/2023 at 07:44, Preston Red said:

If anyone is interested, the Netflix docu-series "WWII, From The Frontlines" is worth a watch. Colourised footage but some incredibly shocking stories of brutality.

 

Hamburg was a shocker for me. Flattened the city and sent the bombers back again, the day after, because they missed the post office and got word of a shelter, housing 60,000 civilians, that had to be flattened. There'll always be the counter argument of "Well they bombed London and flattened Coventry", but that shows the futility of war to me. There were no winners, just millions of dead people when it was all over.

I’ve been watching it. It’s absolutely superb but gut wrenching at the same time. Agreed on the Hamburg blitz. Although if it was in response to flattening Coventry we should have been dropping popcorn and used knickers on them as a thank you. 
 

Unreal footage. Unbiased as well. When the US took Saipan and the people were throwing themselves off cliffs rather than be captured (not just soldiers but women etc) nearly had me crying. What have we done with this fucking world, all through greed. 

[Lee909]

[VladimirIlyich]

19 hours ago, Harry's Lad said:

BBC News - Carry On films: The star who helped World War II prisoners escape
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68209738

 

I knew he'd been prisoner of war, captured by The Hitler Youth I read somewhere.

Fascinating. Especially failing that audition for a part as himself!

[Anubis]

Disappointed Gregg Wallace hasn’t joined the forum to debate history with you all.

[Preston Red]

On 06/02/2024 at 12:08, Bjornebye said:

I’ve been watching it. It’s absolutely superb but gut wrenching at the same time. Agreed on the Hamburg blitz. Although if it was in response to flattening Coventry we should have been dropping popcorn and used knickers on them as a thank you. 
 

Unreal footage. Unbiased as well. When the US took Saipan and the people were throwing themselves off cliffs rather than be captured (not just soldiers but women etc) nearly had me crying. What have we done with this fucking world, all through greed. 

It's definitely the best documentary that I've seen of WWII.

 

I forgot about Saipan as well. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and was thoroughly shocked by it too.

[Kevin D]

 

[Lee909]

Within 120 days he's held Wellington at Quatre Bras,beat Blucher at Ligny, lost at Waterloo. The French Monarchy is restored and Napoleon is put aboard HMS Bellerophon(in service at the Napoleon biggest setbacks at the Nile and Trafalgar) to travel to Englamd before his eventual exile to St Helena

[Kepler-186]

Thames TV doc on Spain in late 60s under Franco. 
 

 

If you go to the Thames TV page on YT there’s the playlists and an absolute treasure trove of short reports and docs organised by subject. 

[Kevin D]

 

[AngryOfTuebrook]

This is fascinating: the earliest recorded strike, in the Valley of the Kings around 1157BCE.

https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1089/the-first-labor-strike-in-history/