My bad, shorts are a bit weird, if they don't take, they kill your overall channel views, so I killed it. Basically the average joe doesn't know who Guy Gibson was....

Looking forward to reading this is a weird thing to say, but your work on Germany has been profound and eminently readable, and I just want to say thank you for all your years of effort

It's literally the only reason I've ever heard for people getting pissed off with Holland. Hastings, which we weren't discussing, is a different ball game.

As my comment to you, I asked if this was because you were upset that he was rude about the MG42. It was glib of me. As you can imagine I get more than a few folks upset because I point out how fucking shite a lot of Nazi stuff was. For that assumption I apologise.

Again, your call

As to whether Holland is a historian or not, I'd argue someone who's been studying the war dornthirty years and has more than a dozen books on the subject, regularly gets invited to speak at conferences on the subject etc > you getting upset that a kids book he co-wrote doesn't include genocide

So I have literally no idea why you comment disappeared mate, and you will not your comment asking if I deleted it appears twice; whether you choose to believe that is up to you. As a rule deleting comments is dumb when the ban hammer is right there.

I file that under 'excuses'; a lot of people pay good money to have their throats close up and eyes go red

Glad it connected, respect to your father and all those men who flew

Yeah I think that's probably true

was riddled with informers, and the Balkans section got bogged down in civil wars. Meanwhile SOE in Burma took three years to pull of a successful op. It wasn't until 1943/44 they did much damage in Europe and 1945 in Burma where they finally became a strategic force

Most excellent. This is Hades impersonating a Curry.

It's an amalgam of lots of stories - I'm suggest Bomber Boys for the RAF and Donald Miller's Masters of the Air for the US - both as excellent but very different from one another

Thank you